Eighteenth Century Quotes

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.