No age in European history presents a more striking range of contrasts than that which precedes the French Revolution. Often described as the Age of Reason, in recognition of such men as Kant, Hume, Diderot and Voltaire, it was also, as Mr. Ogg points out, an age of sentiment and irrational conservatism. In war and politics it witnessed the rise of the British Empire and the birth of the USA, the career of Frederick the Great and the beginnings of modern power politics. Yet the years from 1715-1740 are here summarized as "a period of diplomatic futility and inconclusiveness probably unmatched in European history." And in trade and agriculture, in law and public administration, the co-existence of the archaic and the barbarous with the civilized and scientific is equally conspicuous.
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