... local ‘prejudices’ andcustoms, which owe their development to historical pecu-liarities rather than to the exercise of reason. What mat-ters to the Enlightenment is not whether one is French orGerman, ... to sub-jective opinion, masculinity to femininity, science to other forms of knowledge and theory, reason to emotion, the mind to the body, and so on. Further, such oppositionsare systematically ... claim to be complete, consistent, and livable. j.c.a.g.*Epicureanism.C. Bailey, The Greek Atomists and Epicurus (Oxford, 1 928) .D. J. Furley, The Greek Cosmologists, i: The Formation of the AtomicTheory...