Acclaim for Gertrude Himmelfarb’s

THE ROADS TO MODERNITY

“Ever since Immanuel Kant posed his famous question in 1784—‘What is Enlightenment?’—critics and commentators have searched for an answer. . . . In the end it is always harder to ask Kant’s question than to answer it. But Ms. Himmelfarb reminds us of why we should continue to try.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Elegant, lucid and intelligent.” —The Providence Journal

“Wonderfully argued. . . . A potent [book].” —The Washington Times

“[Himmelfarb’s] writing . . . has a verve and sharpness. . . . It is a pleasure to read.” —The New York Review of Books

“Masterful and elegant. . . . A valuable book, and most valuable in its reconstruction and appreciation of the British Enlightenment.” —Commentary

“[Himmelfarb is] one of today’s most important practitioners of history. . . . The Roads to Modernity reveals more clearly than any previous book on the subject the environment in which these ideas and practices were born and how firmly they still mold the moral sense and common sense of the English-speaking world today.” —The New Criterion