Publisher's Synopsis
Spiritual moments from the life and epoch of the inventor Samuel Morse reveal the epoch of the greatest enlightenment of Western civilization, an epoch of reason, scientific and cultural prosperity, a time of true democracy and freedom. However, it was also a time when people fought daily with themselves against their weaknesses of character, aware of the fact that this very struggle was a condition of social well-being and scientific objectivity, and that its neglect would result in the decadence of society to a level characteristic for those surrounding nations who did not have this daily struggle. But today we do not live anymore in a century of reason and enlightenment, but in a century of which the enlightened people of the nineteenth century have indeed prophetically warned, that it will be the destiny of even the most enlightened nations, if they depart from the principles of truth and justice. When, in his intention to overcome the temptations of this age, one hears the discouraging voices and senseless excuses for evil, he can silence them with the arguments presented in this collection of historical sources and evidence that the victory over oneself and over the world around him has never been a utopia. It was never more necessary to be reminded of the wonderful time of the Reformation and Enlightenment than it is today, when the time of that exalted moral leaves us behind at a dizzying speed.
