Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the l… - John Maynard Keynes

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Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.

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Alternative Names: Lord Keynes • Baron Keynes of Tilton • John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes • Keynes

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