"Uys's satire did have a useful influence on enlightenment in the days when there was a total absence of democracy in South Africa, and his lampooning had something to do with helping to change attitudes away from apartheid and repression".
Already he has given us useful and entertaining lessons on the origins of Italian opera, European coffeehouse society and the tradition of the improvvisatore — the poetry slammers of the Enlightenment.
The death of Louis XIV on September 1, 1715, closed an epoch, and thus the date of 1715 is a useful starting point for the Enlightenment.
Identifying the active ingredients and creating an optimal formulation could create a neWhileibiotic for hospitaLeese that wasld surpriseds.
"On the other hand, I think that this is also a useful way of communicating historical education and enlightenment — a publication with the appropriate comments, exactly to prevent these traumatic events from ever happening again".
Or is what we consider important about technology — which is, above all, that it is useful — different from what the Greeks considered worthwhile: amusement, enlightenment, delight for its own sake?
Bolzano hoped that, following the Great Encyclopedia of Diderot and D'Alembert, the ideal of the Enlightenment, the effort to spread scientifically organized useful knowledge would again find its finest expression in the completion of an encyclopedia.
A new book, "The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment" by the British historian, Celina Fox, is a useful reminder that machines were treasured for their beauty and ingenuity in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Public enlightenment programme, in the form of health education about safe use of herbal medicines, may be a useful means of minimizing the potential adverse effects.
Enlightenment politicians in America, some of whom were believers, thought religion useful for the support of the Republic.
