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History 2: Modernity

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  1. Lesson 1: Orientation
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  2. Lesson 2: The Great Stage: Introduction to the West
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  3. Lesson 3: Ideas Have Consequences: The Enlightenment
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  4. Lesson 4: The Sacred & the Secular: Empires, Pirates, and Rulers
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  5. Lesson 5: Royal Science: The Scientific Revolution
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  6. Lesson 6: The Creators: Pascal, Vermeer, Johnson, and Bach
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  7. Lesson 7: The Devil Has No Stories: The French Revolution
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  8. Lesson 8: I Am The Revolution: Napoleon Bonaparte
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  9. Lesson 9: Deus Ex Machina: The Industrial Revolution
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  10. Lesson 10: The Antiquary & the Muse: Scott, Austen, and the Romantic Poets
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  11. Lesson 11: No Vision Too Large: Wilberforce & Chalmers
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  12. Lesson 12: Culture = State: Nationalism
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  13. Lesson 13: Eminent Culture: Victorianism
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  14. Lesson 14: The West and the Rest: Victorian Missions
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  15. Lesson 15: The New Priesthood: Scientism and Darwinism
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  16. Lesson 16: The Square Inch War: Kuyper and Wilson
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  17. Lesson 17: The Pity of War: World War I
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  18. Lesson 18: Domesticity Versus Tyranny: Versailles, Dictators, and America’s Roaring Twenties
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  19. Lesson 19: Modern Art and the Death of Culture: Art and Architecture
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  20. Lesson 20: I’ll Take My Stand: The Thirties
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  21. Lesson 21: The Lost Generation: Literary Converts
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  22. Lesson 22: The Wrath of Man: World War II
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  23. Lesson 23: The Cross and Perseverance: World War II, Bonhoeffer, and Churchill
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  24. Lesson 24: Personal Peace and Affluence: The Fifties
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  25. Lesson 25: The Great Divorce: The Sixties
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  26. Lesson 26: The West Like the Rest: The Seventies and the End of Modernity
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  27. Lesson 27: The Triumph of the West: The Fall of Communism and Postmodernity
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ASSIGNMENT:

  1. Read the following quotes about the pursuit and use of wisdom and education.
  2. Write a short essay or discuss with your instructor: What does education and the pursuit of wisdom require of us?

SELECTION: Quotations about wisdom and education.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding”
-Proverbs 9:10

“Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them”
-Francis Bacon

“Education ought to be little more than a form of intellectual repentance. If it is more than that or less than that, horrors result” 
-J.R.R. Tolkien