HIST 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter pg 38: Feudalism, Eurocentrism, Calvinism
16 Sep 2018
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Pen name of francoi marie arouet, single best- known write of the enlightenment. He insisted on the virtues of the freedom to pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s (cid:272)hose(cid:374) religio(cid:374) (cid:449)ithout persecution. The great means to reduce the number of fanatics, is to submit that disease of the mind to the treatment of reason, which slowly, infallibly, enlightens men. It inspires liberality, suppresses discord, and strengthens virtue, more power to make obedience attractive than force has to compel. By the 1780s, the european slave trade had become a very contentious issue. In 1781, one of the leading french reformers, nobleman marie jean caritat, published under a pseudonym an impassioned pamphlet against slavery. He denounced the slave system as a crime and called for its abolition without compensation. He also demands: restoration of the civil rights of calvinists, elimination of torture in the judicial process, suppression of the last remains of serfdom (statue of peasants under.
