Enlightenment : Britain and the Creation of the Modern World by Porter Roy

Author:Porter, Roy [Porter, Roy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
ISBN: 9780140250282
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Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Published: 1997-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

To overcome that obstacle, a school, a museum, a music hall and a ballroom had been built, Southey noted, reflecting the entrepreneur's desire to increase the happiness of his work people a hundredfold. Owen was thus a logical terminus ad quem of enlightened thought, imagining and realizing comprehensive benevolent control within a scheme of industrialization, and displaying Helvétius-like concern with education and discipline over his ‘human machines’.46

Uniting science and imagination, poetry and social theory, many penned anthems to improvement, from the Poet Laureate Henry James Pye's Progress of Refinement (1783) to Shelley's The Triumph of Life, uncompleted at his death in 1822. 47 Modelled on Lucretius's De rerum natura, Richard Payne Knight's The Progress of Civil Society (1796) was divided into six books whose very titles – ‘Of Hunting’, ‘Of Pasturage’, ‘Of Agriculture’, ‘Of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce’, ‘Of Climate and Soil’ and ‘Of Government and Conquest’ – clearly show that he was setting enlightened speculative anthropology to verse, giving a poetic rendition of the lessons of Adam Smith's stages of society:

Each found the produce of his toil exceed

His own demands, of luxury or need;

Whence each the superfluity resign'd,

More useful objects in return to find:

Each freely gave what each too much possess'd,

In equal plenty to enjoy the rest.48

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