Modern European History
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1. What did Paul Valery mean in saying that the mind of Europe doubted itself
profoundly?
Before 1914, people in Europe believed in progress, peace, prosperity,
reason, and rights of individuals. During that time, people began to believe in
the Enlightenment, industrial developments were just start ....
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.... was created. People didn't know or
what to expect anymore. They did not know what was going to happen after the
war. They're so devastated by the war that many who were still alive lost faith
and all hopes. Many intellectuals began to doubt the Enlightenment and even the
future of Western civilization. This state of uncertainty and unpredictability
brought out many modern philosophers of that time. One of them was a French
poet and critic Paul Valery. He stated that "Europe was looking at i ....
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