Breaking the Enlightenment spell Perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem Idealising the age of reason as a perfect model of truth, virtue and knowledge is bad history as well as bad philosophyby Jonathan Ree / June 18, 2015 Published in July 2015 issue of Prospect Magazine The frontispiece of the 1772 Encyclopedie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Al..