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Lord Mansfield and the culture of improvement.(Law)
THE MULTIPLE national enlightenments of eighteenth-century Europe had common themes which justify the continued use of the term the Enlightenment". I will concentrate on one such theme and illustrate it with one man's achievement.
The theme is the culture of improvement: the widespread conviction that by the application of reason, things can be done better. One of the great achievements of the Enlightenment was the inculcation of a belief that no individual, nor society at large, was doomed by God or by nature or by fate to continue to do things the way they had always been done.
I distinguish an "improver" from a "reformer". As Senator Roscoe Conkling, ...
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