3- The Seventeenth Century was marked by the ……. of the Renaissance spirit.
A- flourishing
B- increase
C- rise
D- decline
This spirit may be defined as the spirit of observation and of preoccupation with details, and a systematic analysis of facts, feelings and ideas. In other words, it was the spirit of science popularized by such great men as Newton, Bacon and Descartes. In the field of literature this spirit manifested itself in the form of criticism which in England is the creation of the Seventeenth Century.