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Quotation from Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
“The earlier period was the age of faith, based upon reason. In the later period, they let sleeping dogs lie: it was the age of reason, based upon faith”
Science and the Modern World, Ch. IV, The Eighteenth Century (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611))
Contrasting the Middle Ages with the Enlightenment, Whitehead illustrates with Anselm's proofs and Hume's trust in the order of nature.
Citation: "The earlier period was the age of faith, based upon reason. In the later period, they let sleeping dogs lie: it was the age of reason, based upon faith" — Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, Ch. IV, The Eighteenth Century (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611)). (id whitehead-science-and-the-modern-world-q5)
