Not quite V.Very Misc. Deep Background to V.

[Mark Kohut]

There is a positive review the other day in Book World of a posthumous book by Hugh Trevor-Roper, historian. The book is essays often around the philosophy 
of history and historians....
 
I send this cause TRP works as a fictional semi-philosopher of history in V, among much else...and other works....I say. A..and Enlightenment may be a key period. 
 
"What was the lesson which Gibbon learned from Montesquieu?" asks Trevor-Roper. "Briefly, it was that human history is . . . a process, and a process governed, in its detail, not by a divine plan . . . but by a complex of social forces which a 'philosophic historian,' that is, a historian who looked behind mere events for fundamental ideas, causes and connexions . . . could isolate and describe."
 
BookWorld A scholarly field guide to the Enlightenment: A review of historian Hugh Trevor-Roper's HISTORY AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT http://ow.ly/22IhZ