History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe

by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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Genres: History, Philosophy, Nonfiction

406 pages, Hardcover

First published April 8, 1865

About the author

William Edward Hartpole Lecky was an Irish historian and political theorist. Born at Newtown Park, near Dublin, he was the eldest son of John Hartpole Lecky, a landowner. He was educated at Kingstown, Armagh, at Cheltenham College, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated BA in 1859 and MA in 1863, and where he studied divinity with a view to becoming a priest in the Protestant Church of Ireland.