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... and where. They had wearied of iniquitous taxes designed by bureaucrats who never had to pay them, and indeed of everything that could not be explained rationally. The Enlightenment established a vision of humanity so independent of Christianity and so focused on the needs and abuses of the society of the time that no established institution, once grown corrupt and ineffectual, could ... ...
... of collective political authority. Yet in hard and bitter agony there was also the birth of a new and more noble conception of Liberty. It was this more exalted, more inclusive vision of Liberty which would be invoked so many centuries later by a bold group of men willing to justify revolution by an appeal to the self-evident truth that all men ... ...
... societies for both sexes, and attending, as spectators, the galleries of section assemblies, the national legislature, and radical clubs advocating for republican ideas. The women of France were enacting the vision of liberal citizenship that Condorcet so enthusiastically supported. They joined the Confederation des amis de la verite, which, along with the Cordeliers, was the leading club in the movement to ... ...
