“The Enlightenment, the so-called ‘age of reason’, would increasingly rely on the guidance of the emotions. Reason untempered by feeling was felt to be inadequate, even dangerous. ‘Virtue born of reason alone,’ said Pietro Verri, ‘makes us just, faithful, discreet and circumspect; but that which springs from sentiment makes us generous, affectionate, benevolent; the first tends to remove evil from our actions, the second urges us with positive actions towards the good.”