The Enlightenment was run by the hypocrisy of the European politicians. They ran along with the claim that religion was the cause of intolerance, yet they still denied the colonial Mulattos the right to vote, setting off wars of Independence in the Caribbean and the Americas. France denied and belittled the Blacks and Mulattos after the revolution had set up an atheist government. Anyways, the real part about the Enlightenment that mattered was the fact that it inspired wars of Independence, including our own in the United States, and also inspired a great deal of the idea that one should hold politicians and policies accountable, as we do here on Freerepublic regularly.