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FEIJOO Y See also:MONTENEGRO, BENITO JERONIMO (1676-1764) , See also:Spanish See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk and See also:scholar was See also:born at See also:Santa Maria de Melias, near See also:Orense, on the 8th of See also:October 1676. At the See also:age of twelve he entered the See also:Benedictine See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, devoted himself to study, and waged See also:war against the superstition and See also:ignorance of his countrymen in the Teatro crItico (1726–1739) and the Cartas eruditas (1742–1760). These exposures of a See also:retrograde See also:system called forth embittered protests from narrow-minded patriots like See also:Salvador Jose Maner, and others; but the opposition was
futile, and 'Feij6o's services to the cause of knowledge were universally recognized See also:long before his See also:death, which took See also:place at See also:Oviedo on the 26th of See also:September 1764. He was not a See also:great See also:genius, nor a writer of transcendent merit; his name is connected with no important See also:discovery, and his See also:style is undistinguished. But he uprooted many popular errors, awakened an See also:interest in scientific methods, and is justly regarded as the initiator of educational reform in See also:Spain.
End of Article: FEIJOO Y MONTENEGRO, BENITO JERONIMO (1676-1764)
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