Fire In The Minds Of Men

Download or read book Fire In The Minds Of Men written by James H. Billington and published by New York : Basic Books. This book was released on 1980-09-04 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book seeks to trace the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of our time: ... the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority" (Introduction), as demonstrated in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when two ideals, "equality and fraternity--split apart and became the founding tenets of two separate revolutionary traditions" (Jacket).