l'illuminisme

Updated: August 10, 2026

It is a better word than the French l'Illuminisme, the Enlightenment. Still we are apparently committed to the term Rationalism, although it is not an altogether fortunate designation which the English-speaking race has given to a tendency practically universal in the thinking of Europe, from about 1650 to the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Edward Caldwell Moore - An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant