Still, as far as the intellectual and cultivated part of society is concerned, the triumph of reason was complete; the minds of the highest philosophers were then as ready to obey evidence and reason as they have ever been since; probably they were more ready.
Bagehot asserts that the triumph of reason was evident among the intellectual elite of ancient Athens.
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