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The Enlightenment and the Age of Reason
In place of tutillage was reason, a reason capable of understanding the cosmo. The defining mark of the Age of Reason was precisely respect for and glorification of reason. We may rejoice in this concise age, but we may well be inclined to ask, why was Newton necessary? Why didn't the same thing happen in the Renaissance?