10 Commandments

In the eighteenth century imaginative and emotional religion tended to be superseded or overshadowed by Rationalism. Jews were as ‘enlightened’ as Gentiles; and the scientific movement of the time found expression in the French Revolution. Montesquieu, the philosopher, commenced the enfranchisement of the Jew; Mirabeau, the patriot, carried it on; and Napoleon completed it. It […]