with previously accepted ways of thinking?
What additional piece of evidence helps to create the MOST COMPLETE argument that the Enlightenment represented a break
Centered on the dialogues and publications of the French "philosophes" (Voltaire, Rousseau,
Montesquieu, Buffon and Diderot), the High Enlightenment might best be summed up by one historian's
(A)
summary of Voltaire's "Philosophical Dictionary": "a chaos of clear ideas."
(B)
(C)
(D)
The signature publication of the period was Diderot's "Encyclopédie" (1751-77), which brought together
leading authors to produce an ambitious compilation of human knowledge.
It was also a time of religious (and anti-religious) innovation, as Christians sought to reposition their faith
along rational lines and deists and materialists argued that the universe seemed to determine its own
course without God's intervention.
Enlightened rationality gave way to the wildness of Romanticism, but 19th-century Liberalism and
Classicism-not to mention 20th-century Modernism - all owe a heavy debt to the thinkers of the
Enlightenment.