... to secure these reserved natural rights. The state itself being under contract to safeguard the interests of its members gives rise to responsible, popular revolution (Columbia). The Philosophes, building on Locke and others and embracing many and varied currents of thought with a common supreme faith in reason, vigorously attacked religious and scientific dogmatism, intolerance, censorship, and social-economic ... and classic cultures appealing because it allowed men like Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Diderot to roll with the times and express their ideas. Voltaire was able to c...

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