Word: rationalists
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Dates: during 1893-1893
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...Renan tracing step by step the development of his ideas and opinions, giving even the hasty reader a clear notion of who Renan was, what position he held in the hearts of his people, and making plain what a great and wonderful thinker he was. Renan was a rationalist, not a Christian, and though few of us can agree with him in his radical ideas, we must all acknowledge that his conception of the relations of all matters, spiritual and physical, and his views of life and duty are the product of one of the deepest minds...