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The values that Americans had brought from Europe to the New World had grown out of the sudden explosion of literacy and knowledge after Gutenberg's disruptive invention broke up the stagnant medieval information monopoly and triggered the Reformation, Humanism, and the Enlightenment and enshrined a new sovereign: the "Rule of Reason."

Ping for comedical hilarity....

66 posted on 10/06/2005 8:29:30 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Psalm 73)
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I just love how the "reality-based community" pretends to worship the Enlightenment even as they try to tear down everything good it has led to.
101 posted on 10/06/2005 8:43:34 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Bring back Modernman AND SeaLion AND Mylo!)
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