How could people of intellectual revolutionary times possibly deal with these revolutionary ideas and discoveries?​

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How could people of intellectual revolutionary times possibly deal with these revolutionary ideas and discoveries?​

These people were brilliant philosophers and thinkers that had a privileged mind and could come with different ideas that changed the course of human history.

When they postulated these ideas, they were not even considering the way these ideas were going to transcend the pass of time and the influence they were going to have in other nations and revolutionary movements.

Let's set the example of the brilliant thinkers during the European Enlightenment period. People like Voltaire, Baron de Montesquiou, Jean-Jaques Rosseau, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes, postulated ideas about a new form of government, the division of powers, citizens rights, liberty, equity, and equality.

These new ideas had such a great impact on other politicians and independence movements such as the Revolutionary War of Independence in colonial America and years, later, the French Revolution.

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