The Enlightenment

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The Effect of the Enlightenment on Modern England.

The Enlightenment was a philosophical and intellectual movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 18th century. The main theme of the enlightenment was the transition of the 18th century society from a world dominated by the church and state into a more open to reason society, where science and philosophy become the centre of thought. And for that reason the Enlightenment could also be referred to as “The Age of Reason”.
The period is believed to have begun with the close of the thirty years war in 1648 and ended with the French revolution in 1789. One of the major contributing countries to the Enlightenment was England, with the explosion of intellectual publications