How did the themes in the French Encyclopedia, subtitled Reasoned Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Trades,bring aboutdistrust, censorship, and persecution for new ways of thinking?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Controversial themes of Encyclopedia
1. book was not merely a disinterested panorama of knowledge
2. values were practical
a. enormous emphasis on utility, engineering, mechanics, technology
3. writers of the Encyclopedia advocated reason and science as means to truth
4. tone was generally critical of the existing record of Europe's monarchies
and aristocracies
5. favor constitutional guarantees of the liberty of the citizen against the state
6. insisted on the "natural equality" of all men
7. work was uniformly hostile to organized religion
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