Enlightenment
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...rationalism and skepticism of the age led naturally to deism; the same...Diderot epitomized the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment, or Age of Reason, as it is also called...America, Thomas Paine , Thomas Jefferson , and Benjamin Franklin exerted...