> The men of this epoch inherited a ferment of ideas attendant upon the historical revolt of the sixteenth century, and they bequeathed formed systems of thought touching every aspect of human life. It is the one century which consistently, and throughout the whole range of human activities, provided intellectual genius adequate for the greatness of its occasions. .. At its dawn Bacon’s #AdvancementOfLearning and Cervantes’ #DonQuixote were published in the same year (1605)