Democratic Enlightenment

1052 Index
Mendelssohn, Moses (cont.)
Spinoza 173–4, 192, 307–8, 703–12, 717–18
Wolffianism 173–4, 193, 717
Philosophische Gespräche (1755) 307
Phaedon (1767) 308
Jerusalem (1783) 692
Morgenstunden (1785) 697, 703–4, 707–9,
717, 729
An die Freunde Lessings (1786) 712
Mennonites, see Pennsylvania
Mercier, Louis Sebastien (1740–1814), French
radical publicist, 25, 93, 100, 527, 787
critique of Rousseau 645–6
lawyers 646
revolutionary fervour 520, 629, 644, 761, 811
L’An 2440 (1771) 398–9, 401, 520, 646, 786
J.J.Rousseau considéré comme l’un des premiers
auteurs de la Révolution (1791) 642, 644
Meslier, Jean (1664–1729), radical philosophe 118,
170, 219, 811
Mesmer and Mesmerism 595, 686, 782, 815, 898
Mesplet, Fleury (1734–94), French-born Canadian
printer and radical 500, 910
Meyer, Lodewijk (1629–81), Dutch radical 180, 323
Mexico, see New Spain
Mexico City, botanical gardens
(Chapultepec) 386–7, 509–12, 531
Michaelis, Johann David (1717–91), German
orientalist 193, 833, 854
Milan and Milanese Enlightenment 210, 273,
337–8, 347, 357–9
book censorship 357, 359, 790–1
Il Caffè 338, 345, 359–60
Millar, John (1735–1801), Scots radical
enlightener 18, 229, 236–7, 241, 419, 570
republicanism 229–30, 241
Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de
(1749–1791), radical philosophe and
revolutionary 26, 280, 319, 404, 607, 643,
814–15, 820, 944–5
critique of American Revolution 213, 905
critique of Britain 816, 895–6, 912
democratic republicanism 768, 772, 816, 895,
925, 932
Dutch democratic revolution 884, 894–6
Frederick the Great 274–6, 278
freemasonry 780, 828–9
in French Revolution 773, 775, 897–8, 900,
904–8, 916–18, 925, 931, 934
Genevan Revolution 869, 871–3, 895
Jews 277, 319
miracles and the miraculous 10, 33, 145, 152–3,
183–4, 196, 324, 392, 686, 940
Miranda, Francisco de (1750–1816), Venezuelan
revolutionary 7, 274, 277, 392, 401, 501,
503, 509, 517
and Histoire philosophique 392, 503, 521–2
missionaries and missionizing 484–5, 545, 547–8,
571, 591, 594–5
Modena, as center of clandestine book
trade 791–2
moderation ( modérantisme), as philosophicalpolitical
principle 16–17, 23, 27–8, 30,
217, 655, 675, 743, 836, 838, 846, 863, 867,
869, 906, 911–12, 928
see also Hume, Montesquieu, Mounier, Necker
Moluccas 540, 553, 556, 586
monarchiens, see Mounier and Lally-Tolendal
Moniglia, Tomaso Vicenzo (1686–1787),
Dominican professor at Pisa 328–9, 362
Montaigne, Michel de (1533–92), Renaissance
writer 151, 170, 405
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron
de (1689–1755), philosophe 16–17, 19, 58,
234, 252, 604, 788
aristocratic conception of society 286, 774,
928, 932
‘Asiatic despotism’ 273, 568, 584, 604, 619, 624
Bayle attacked 154, 663
China 560, 568, 571
Christianity benign in effects 31, 485, 493,
777, 931
and l’Encyclopédie 59, 91
eulogy of Britain 227–8, 457, 459, 627,743, 867,
891, 896, 928
in French Revolution 770–1, 774, 776–8,
932, 934
icon of moderate Enlightenment 117–118, 131,
149, 154, 223, 303, 375, 456, 812, 916
impact in Italy 327, 330–2, 352, 369
impact in Russia 619, 624, 627
impact in Scotland 227–8, 234, 236
manners adapted to the constitution of a
state 255, 305, 891
moral relativism 131, 149, 305, 424, 774
radical undercurrent 31–2, 646, 932
separation of powers 459, 928–9
slavery 423–4,
toleration 58
L’Esprit des Loix (1748) 154, 234, 330–2, 398,
401, 456, 770, 889
‘moral sense’ 256–8, 700
Moreau de Saint Méry, M.LE. (1750–1819),
French apologist for slavery 424
Moreau, Jacob-Nicolas (1711–1803), French
anti-philosophe 63–4, 77
Morellet, Abbé André (1727–1819), ‘moderate’
encyclopédiste 62, 64, 89–90, 343–4,
669, 788
and Encyclopédie 60, 74, 85, 87
opposes French Revolution 74, 899–901, 934
La Vision de Charles Palissot (1760) 89