Across
- 3. a new innovation after the printing press that made books available to those who could not afford them
- 4. John Locke's concept of the mind as a blank sheet ultimately bombarded by sense impressions that, aided by human reasoning, formulate ideas.
- 6. Enlightenment thinkers envisioned a "republic of science" for the newly freed American colonies; in which idea would be exchanged freely and useful knowledge would improve the life of all citizens.
- 8. French for "philosopher"; applied to all intellectuals during the Enlightenment
- 10. This was the group of economists who believed that the wealth of a nation was derived solely from the value of its land
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- 1. statement of Voltaire, calling for the destruction of the Catholic Church, which he believed was the root of evil, means "Destroy the infamous thing!"
- 2. A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets.
- 5. philosophers glorified the collegiality and interdependence of writers within this, what the men and women of enlightenment called the informal international community of
- 7. "I think; therefore, I am."
- 9. Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas
