The Enlightenment

Title: The Enlightenment
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The Enlightenment

“The Enlightenment, as the eighteenth century came to be called, was an age of optimism, tampered by the realistic recognition of the sad state of the human condition and the need for major reform.” (Hamberman, 144) Edmund Burke was a leading British philosopher and statesman of the (take out of the and add during the) Enlightenment. He was born in Ireland in 1729, and was abandoned by his parents at the age of ten. He went to …showed first 75 words of 1124 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1124 total…since the beginning of time the superiors and inferiors, the masters and the slaves, the bosses and the workers, and at the same time there have also been those people that have been taken advantage of and neglected by others weather it be by laws or in the general sense by anyone or anything. Thus there will also always be hatred and enmity between people and Edmund Burke’s quote will virtually always be applicable.

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