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VII, ch. xv, two excellent chapters on natural science, 1648-1788, by Paul Tannery; Sir Oliver Lodge, Pioneers of Science ; Sir Leslie Stephen, History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, 3d ed., 2 vols. , an interesting account of the English Deists and of the new political and economic theorists, and, by the same author, English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century ; Edmund Gosse, A History of Eighteenth Century Literature, 1660-1780 ; J. M. Robertson, A Short History of Free Thought, 3d rev. ed., 2 vols. , a sympathetic treatment of deism and rationalism; C. S. Devas, The Key to the World's Progress , suggestive criticism of the thought of the eighteenth century from the standpoint of a well- informed Roman Catholic.

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