I liked it. I must have read it soon after it came out, because I was still working at That Insurance Company, which had a small general-use library, including recent fiction and nonfiction.
I found the Latin a little troublesome, as I’ve never given it too much study. But the web he weaves is quite interesting, and he makes his case well.
It’s a good companion piece to Arthur Herman’s “How the Scots Invented the Modern World”.
But it’s just a little sad that all this world-saving seems to come about by way of accidental predilections, rather than deliberate intentions.