What Can Historians Use as Evidence That the Ideals of the Enlightenment

question 9

Multiple Choice

What can historians use as evidence that the ideals of the Enlightenment were not universally accepted?

• A) Many governments employed censors and punished radical thinkers.
• B) Riots occurred in university towns against the imposition of secular knowledge in the schools.
• C) Artisans guilds passed rules against applying Newtonian physics to their crafts.
• D) Women wrote in their journals that they refused to conduct experiments because they feared a loss of femininity.

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