... humanity, and society, including the theory of the inalienable Rights of Man' that became their fundamental ethical and social gospel (Columbia). 2. The philosophes found the Renaissance 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 concentrate on two specific ... Hazlitt asked, "For the better part of my life all I did was think." And William Godwin a contemporary of Hazlitt's asked, "what shall I do when I have read all the books?" Christianity had formed a ma...

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