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		_pdp_ on Dec 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UK Government is breaking the law by collecting ev... Not historian but I would imagine it was the agricultural revolution. :)

petre on Dec 21, 2016 [–]

It was the Renaissance and the French Revolution. And yes, the printing machine helped the spread of ideas. But so did Voltaire, Thomas Paine, the Quakers, etc. You cannot have progress and freedom without humanistic disciplines.

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