The Enlightenment in America

The idea that now improvement is possible, that one can actually change the world. It's not something that has been a defining marker of human history for tens of thousands and thousands of years. So i want to leave you with four essential ideas today about the enlightenment. What are some limits that are placed on people's lives in the eighteenth century? What limits people as wealth limit you? How does religion serve as a limit? Good luck.