The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century PhilosophersWill remain a classica beautifully finished literary product.Charles A. Beard, American Historical Review In this volume, the distinguished American historian Carl L. Becker challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. He writes, in crystalline prose, that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval