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Limited Warfare and the Progress of European Civilization 1640–17401
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2009
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Three hundred years ago the people of England were engaged is a terrible civil war. Among the young men then about to come of age was Robert Boyle (1627–1691). Except for Newton, he did more than any other Englishman of the late seventeenth century to make Great Britain the center of the great school of natural philosophy, whose achievements Voltaire was to insist constituted one of the chief glories of the age of Louis XIV. Boyle was horrified by war. He regarded it as a disease of human societies. In 1646 he wrote about it from London with touches of wisdom astonishing to hear, especially from a boy of nineteen. He had had conversations with a number of partisans of the House of Commons, with men who were destined to be on the winning side. Those who look forward to victory today as the solution of their troubles might meditate to advantage upon his words.
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