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        <title><![CDATA[Isaac Newton's theories fundamentally changed how man views (or may...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Isaac Newton's theories fundamentally changed how man views (or may view) the world.  No longer was mysticism or faith an acceptable way of dealing with questions that seemed beyond man's reach: even God (if he existed) could be understood by applying rationality.  For Westerners, typically immersed in biblical rhetoric, this was quite a new way of thinking.   Enlightenment thinkers argued that  man only had to discover the right keys to...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why would Isaac Newton (as an enlightenment thinker) be considered...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why would Isaac Newton (as an enlightenment thinker) be considered significant in the history of Western civilization?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:14:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Late Eighteenth Century: By the 1770s, significant growth in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Late Eighteenth Century: By the 1770s, significant growth in the printing industry means wider distribution of newspapers and books. This enables Enlightenment writers to reach a greater audience. Censorship is also waning, enabling Enlightenment thinkers to write more plainly about their views and theories.

Today: The Internet enables anyone to reach a worldwide audience. Any information, theory, or ideology can be read by millions of...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Compare and contrast the "enlightenment" to life today.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Compare and contrast the "enlightenment" to life today.]]></description>
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