Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most illustrious families, happily anticipates his highly desirable marriage to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. Yet he finds reason to doubt his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's ...
At first, the universities and the Church, by that I include both the Catholic Church and the Protestant Churches, steeped in the tradition of Aristotle and Scholasticism were against them. But in the end, the Age of Scholasticism gave way to the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment....