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Developments in literacy, education and communication

//The Encyclopedia// by: Diderot and d’Almbort 1751-1765

//The Encyclopedia// was created to teach people how to think critically and objectively about all matters. This series of volumes went over obstacles that people before could not go over and discuss. Like atheism and the soul which started with an A in French. The government banned //The Encyclopedia// for a while because it of what it had published by questioning religion and immortality. However //The Encyclopedia// was beneficial to sciences and industry and it proved that by using the process of reasoning, the human mind could expand in knowledge. The encyclopedists believed that the more knowledge people had, the happier they could be. The Encyclopedia summed up the new world view of the enlightenment. Works cited: McKay, John, Bennett Hill, and John Buckler. A History of Western Society. 7th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.