Rationalism

=Characteristics:=
 * =Democratic utopia.=
 * =Achieve order and explanation through reason and science rather than the Puritan notion that God is solely responsible.=
 * =History is an act of the individual and national self-assertion.=
 * =Human society is run by natural law.=
 * =Success is gained by hard work and common sense.=



= WRITERS: =

=@Benjamin Franklin=

=@Thomas Jefferson=

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