... from God became the general consensus. " became the general consensus."" Oh you have GOT to be kidding me! Well, that seemed to be the idea behind The Enlightenment. Works like Tartuffe' pointed out that not all men are good, and brought to light the corruption men are capable of. In the new found world of optimism, men like Moliere(whom penned ... Tartuffe') and Voltaire were not pecimists, but realists. Voltaire was actually run out of France for his satirical view of the optimistic world, Candide'. Candide' focused on the falsehoods in the ... ...

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