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| Introduction | |
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| Notes to Introduction | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Enlightenment Spirit: An Overview | |
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| What is Enlightenment? - Kant | |
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| The Human Mind Emerged from Barbarism - d'Alembert | |
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| "Encyclopedie" - Diderot | |
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| Definition of a Philosophe - Dumarsais | |
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| Le mariage de Figaro - Beaumarchais | |
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| The Magic Flute - Mozart | |
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| The Future Progress of the Human Mind - Condorcet | |
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| Reason and Nature | |
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| The New Science - Bacon | |
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| Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy - Newton | |
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| The New Physics - Cotes | |
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| On Bacon and Newton - Voltaire | |
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| The Rat - Buffon | |
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| The Utility of Science - Condorcet | |
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| The Organization of Scientific Research - Priestley | |
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| Letter to Joseph Priestley - Franklin | |
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| Reason and God | |
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| On Superstition and Tolerance - Bayle | |
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| A Letter Concerning Toleration - Locke | |
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| On Enthusiasm - Shaftesbury | |
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| The Argument for a Deity - Newton | |
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| A Discourse of Free-Thinking - Collins | |
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| "If there is a God . . ." - Montesquieu | |
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| Of Miracles and the Origin of Religion - Hume | |
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| Reflections on Religion - Voltaire | |
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| Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar - Rousseau | |
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| "No need of theology . . . only of reason . . ." - d'Holbach | |
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| The Progress of Superstition - Gibbon | |
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| Unitarianism - Priestley | |
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| "Religion . . . my views of it . . ." - Jefferson | |
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| "Something of my religion . . ." - Franklin | |
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| The Temple of Reason | |
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| The Age of Reason - Paine | |
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| Reason and Humanity | |
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| "I think, therefore I am . . ." - Descartes | |
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| An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Locke | |
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| New Essays on Human Understanding - Leibnitz | |
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| On Mr. Locke - Voltaire | |
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| A Treatise of Human Nature - Hume | |
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| Man a Machine - la Mettrie | |
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| Of Ideas, Their Generation and Associations - Hartley | |
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| The Philosophy of Common Sense - Reid | |
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| Treatise on the Sensations - Condillac | |
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| Some Thoughts Concerning Education - Locke | |
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| Children and Civic Education - Rousseau | |
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| Education for Civil and Active Life - Priestley | |
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| The Fable of the Bees - Mandeville | |
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| An Essay on Man - Pope | |
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| Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - Cleland | |
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| Enjoyment and Tahiti - Diderot | |
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| Concerning the Moral Sense - Hutcheson | |
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| The Impartial Spectator - Smith | |
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| A Treatise on Man - Helvetius | |
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| Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals - Kant | |
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| The Principle of Utility - Bentham | |
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| On Wit - Addison | |
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| Ideas of Beauty and Virtue - Hutcheson | |
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| Discourse on Style - Buffon | |
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| Of the Standard of Taste - Hume | |
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| The Sublime - Burke | |
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| On Theater and Morals - Rousseau | |
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| On Custom and Fashion - Smith | |
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| The Beautiful and Sublime - Kant | |
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| Discourse on Art - Reynolds | |
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| Reason and Society | |
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| The New Science - Vico | |
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| The Utility of History - Bolingbroke | |
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| History as Guide - Hume | |
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| On Progress - Turgot | |
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| A Critique of Progress - Rousseau | |
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| In Defense of Modernity - Voltaire | |
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| The Four-Stage Theory of Development - Smith | |
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| The Progressive Character of Human Nature - Ferguson | |
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| "How glorious, then, is the prospect . . ." - Priestley | |
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| The Perfectibility of Man - Condorcet | |
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| The Second Treatise of Civil Government - Locke | |
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| The Spirit of the Laws - Montesquieu | |
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| Political Essays - Voltaire | |
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| Discourse on the Origin of Inequality - Rousseau | |
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| The Social Contract - Rousseau | |
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| Common Sense - Paine | |
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| The American Declaration of Independence | |
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| Benevolent Despotism - Frederick the Great | |
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| Federalist No. 10 - Madison | |
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| The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | |
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| The Rights of Man - Paine | |
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| Enquiry Concerning Political Justice - Godwin | |
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| The Royal Exchange - Addison | |
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| Industry and the Way to Wealth - Franklin | |
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| Of Luxury - Hume | |
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| The Physiocratic Formula - Quesnay | |
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| Economic Liberty - Turgot | |
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| The Wealth of Nations - Smith | |
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| The Severity of Criminal Laws - Montesquieu | |
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| An Essay on Crimes and Punishments - Beccaria | |
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| On Torture and Capital Punishment - Voltaire | |
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| The State of Prisons - Howard | |
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| "Cases unmeet for punishment . . ." - Bentham | |
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| Splendid Armies - Voltaire | |
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| "There never was a good war . . ." - Franklin | |
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| Perpetual Peace - Kant | |
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| Some Reflections upon Marriage - Astell | |
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| Duties of Women - Rousseau | |
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| The Fair Sex - Kant | |
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| Women, Adored and Oppressed - Paine (attr.) | |
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| "A woman . . . gossips much . . ." - Mozart | |
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| Women's Education - Macaulay | |
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| On the Equality of the Sexes - Constantia | |
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| The Rights of Woman - de Gouges | |
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| Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Wollstonecraft | |
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| "Negroes . . . naturally inferior to the whites . . ." - Hume | |
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| Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes - Woolman | |
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| The Difference between the Races - Kant | |
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| "Who are you, then, to make slaves . . ." - Diderot | |
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| "Bestial manners, stupidity, and vices . . ." - Long | |
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| African Slavery in America - Paine | |
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| Of Empires and Savages - Gibbon | |
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| On Indians and Negroes - Jefferson | |
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| "Negro" - Encyclopaedia Britannica | |
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| The End of Empire - Priestley | |