The modern era begins, characteristically, with a revolution. It is commonly called the Protestant Reformation, but the train of events starting early in the 16C and ending - if indeed it has ended - more than a century later has all the features of a revolution. I take these to be: the violent transfer of power and property in the name of an idea.
- From From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun
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