Barbarism and Religion, Volume I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon and Barbarism and Religion, Volume II: Narratives of Civil Government. (Review article: Edward Gibbon, Edmund Burke, and John Pocock: the appeals of whigs old and new).

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Barbarism and Religion, Volume I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon and Barbarism and Religion, Volume II: Narratives of Civil Government by J.G.A. Pocock. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999. xv, 339 pp; xiv, 422 pp. $49.95 US, each volume; $90.00 US, boxed set (cloth), $39.95 U.S. (paper).

 
   But the age of chivalry is gone. -- That of sophisters, oeconomists, and 
   calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for 
   ever.... This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origins in the 
   ancient chivalry; and in principle, ...

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