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The Eye-Opening Truth About Western Civilisation - Marc Sidwell
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The Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution in the West
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The West has two things going for it, apart from its general individualistic sort of setting where mad ideas can be allowed to bubble through. Firstly, it's quite an inventive culture. It's true from the Germanic days. You get things going on with a lot of automation early well before the Industrial Revolution. These are taken to a new level of sophistication in the West. And you've also got Christianity, which we've talked about before. Now Christianity has sometimes seen, particularly from sort of Enlightenment perspective as being somewhat opposed to scientific thought.
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