First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

by Thomas E. Ricks

Uniquely, Scotland’s Enlightenment was university-based, giving its academic institutions a dynamism that English universities in particular lacked.20 J.E.G. De Montmorency, a historian of education, states that English universities were bypassed altogether by the Enlightenment as they experienced “a century of educational sleep” in the 1700s.