The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

He returned to Harvard for graduate school in 1935 and received his Masters' degree in 1937 and his PhD in 1940. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He describes his work as solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment by establishing military codes that are highly audible and inventing selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

and a major trendsetter in literary canon formation. Under Abrams' editorship the Norton Anthology of English Literature became the standard text for undergraduate survey courses across the U. Meyer (Mike) Howard Abrams (born July 23 1912) is an American literary critic known for works on Romanticism in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp.