... century. Yet the French were the unquestioned leaders in the development of socialism and working class consciousness. After 1750, Britain predominated first in the Cotton Industry and later in the Iron & Steel industries. By 1850, manufacturing was the dominant form of economic activity, agriculture declined and service increased, contrary to France's movement, which had been a lot more gradual. The French lacked ... iron and coal resources but had predominated in the handicraft production movement thus farmers were still very crucial to France's agricultural sector of economy. There w...

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... and superstition, a fear of unchecked political authority, and, of course, a belief in the power of the human mind to recognize the irrational and attempt to correct it. Appealing to the professional classes, literate merchants, and women with leisure to read, the philosophes opposed the old scholastic learning of the universities, mocked the clergy, and denied the Christian mysteries. They expressed confidence ... ...

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