Which of the following was one of the goals of the authors of the Encyclopédie?
A. They wanted to portray all other cultures as being inferior to European culture.
B. They wanted to evaluate the world's regions according to their adherence to rational science.
C. They sought to gather all the knowledge scattered over the face of the earth and to present it in useful form.
D. They sought to create a catalog of all of the works of Western authors.
Answer: C. They sought to gather all the knowledge scattered over the face of the earth and to present it in useful form.
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