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George Walsh on The Enlightenment

Policy@McCombs

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The Importance of Consistency in the Enlightenment

The enlightenment was not a consistent philosophy it was a movement of men of common sympathies and to a large degree a common sense of life. Joseph Priestley, the co-discoverer of oxygen with whose words written in 1771 are now conclude, he's talking about the extension of knowledge. Why does the sense of life in life change better in America than in your founding class? I'm going to put your sheriff up, if you could hold it and tell him to train George, if you can pull your sheriff I'd pick we need a mic.

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