End of the last light

[chitraaa]

The following sentence has been written by me. I want to know if there is a more idiomatic way of expressing ‘end of the last light’ used in English?
The present century marks the end of the last light of Enlightenment ideals of reason and scientific enquiry that ignited human thought for hundreds of years.

 

[tedmc]

last light of Enlightenment ideals of reason and scientific enquiry

What do you mean the above? Can you explain it in simpler words? Why is "Enlightenment" capitalized?
I don't think the sentence can be understood as it is.

 

[chitraaa]

What do you mean the above? Can you explain it in simpler words? Why is "Enlightenment" capitalized?
I don't think the sentence can be understood as it is.

I mean by it the seventeenth-century movement called the Enlightenment.

 

[emsr2d2]

I wrote the following sentence. has been written by me. There's no need to use the passive voice in such a simple sentence.

I want to know if there is a more idiomatic way of expressing ‘end of the last light’ used in English? I don't know what it means so I can't come up with a better way of saying it.

The present century marks the end of the last light of Enlightenment ideals of reason and scientific enquiry that ignited human thought for hundreds of years. I don't understand this sentence at all.

 

[jutfrank]

I like your sentence and understand what you mean well, but I have a minor quibble, which is that it doesn't work very well to use light and ignited together. If you want to use light, then I'd prefer to write illuminated instead of ignited. A spark can ignite something, but a light can't. Alternatively, you could say ... whose spark ignited ... if you really want to keep the metaphor of there being an ignition.

Your phrase the end of the last light of Enlightenment ideals of reason and scientific enquiry is a really nice one, in my opinion. You don't need to change it.

 

[SoothingDave]

Does "last" add anything to the sentence that isn't already conveyed by "end?"