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Reason Traditions
& Logic and
Superstitions
rationalism nostalgia for the
empiricism past
tolerance organized religions
skepticism irrationalism
Deism emotionalism
► Literacy:
- 80 % for men, 60 % women
► Books were expensive (one day’s wages)
► Many readers for each book
- novels, plays & other literature
- journals, memoirs, “private lives”
- philosophy, history, theology
- newspapers, political pamphlets
- often censored by governments
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