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http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Minds-Men-Origins-Revolutionary/dp/0765804719
~Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith~ is an
intriguing intellectual history that traces the developments of the so
called revolutionary faith. The tumultuous upheavals and violent
revolutions of the twentieth century were spawned by revolutionary
ideologies fomented in the nineteenth century. These secular
ideologies became full-fledged secular surrogates for religious belief
and likewise sought the overthrow of traditional authority whether
political or religious with the subsequent creation of a new order.
The contagious revolutionary fervor of the French Revolution, which
was wrought from 1789 to 1791, had its origin in the utopian Rousseau
and German Romanticism. Billington'a sweeping narrative begins amidst
this fervor, which beset the eighteenth century.