Who participated in a literary debate at the beginning of the eighteenth century as leader of the "moderns," a group that believed the future could be better than the past?
A) Bernard de Fontenelle
B) Adam Smith
C) Immanual Kant
D) Pierre Bayle
E) Jonathan Swift
Answer: A
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