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Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.
Approximate author period: c. 1914 AD · modern
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- John Maynard Keynes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1914 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for John Maynard Keynes: life dates 1883 to 1946. Wikidata Q9317, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9317 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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