Aufklärung
Americannoun
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Yeovil hurried through the Arcade; it was not here, in this atmosphere of staring alien eyes and jangling tongues, that he wanted to read the news of the Imperial Aufklärung.
From When William Came by Saki
Between his own transplanted artistic interests on the one hand and his association with the great throng of artists that the Aufklärung had doubtless brought and held, he should do well enough.
From With the Procession by Fuller, Henry Blake
It goes beyond the Aufklärung in emphasizing the living, moving, developing nature of reality; for it, life and consciousness constitute the essence of things, and universal life reveals itself in a progressive history of mankind.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
Without the Counter-Reformation might not the Reformation, deprived of the support of pietism, have perished in the gross rationalism of the Aufklärung, of the age of Enlightenment?
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
It had been so with German Aufklärung, when Ben-David, Itzig, Friedländer, and Jacobson, laid the corner-stone of the intellectual rebirth of their people.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
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