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George Walsh on The Enlightenment

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The Origins of the Scientific Positive Movement

I don't think that anyone ever formulated a general theory as to why Newton's theory cut ice until the late 19th century when you began to have the scientific positive movement in its initial phase. I really don't think there's any general discussion anywhere, whether they are widely accepted model from non-new painted colleague or something that was debated orsomething that was granted. It wasn't the details of Newton's theory which brought about the Enlightenment. It was the sudden conviction that the rationality of the universe could be demonstrated. And now the greatest ambition of people seems to be to reconcile the productivity and the efficiency of the enlightenment with values which come from some other areas on a rational sort. If indeed

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