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Why did the enlightenment lead to different forms of government and societal organization from what had existed before instead of reaffirming the existing power structure based on Reason? Was it the ideas themselves that lead to change or the historical circumstances around the ideas?

by /u/overthinkingmyuserid in /r/AskHistorians

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