Industrial Enlightenment ; Applied Enlightenment Ideals

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. During the enlightenment there are profound differences of opinion. But there is a sense that human progress and social progress for the vast majority was both possible and desirable. There is the Baconian program with many scientists working in its name. There is the Lockean idea that wealth is the product of human creativity and that therefore, it is in principle unlimited, i.e. poverty can be eliminated. Man...