Steven Pinker Quotes

On The Heels Of The Enlightenment Came The French Revolution: A Brief Promise Of Democracy Followed By A Train Of Regicides, Putsches, Fanatics, Mobs, Terrors, And Preemptive Wars, Culminating In A Megalomaniacal Emperor And An Insane War Of Conquest. More Than A Quarter Of A Million People Were Killed In The Revolution And Its Aftermath, And Another 2 To 4 Million Were Killed In The Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars. In Reflecting On This Catastrophe, It Was Natural For People To Reason, "After This, Therefore Because Of This," And For Intellectuals On The Right And The Left To Blame The Enlightenment. This Is What You Get, They Say, When You Eat The Fruit Of The Tree Of Knowledge,

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