Courage and Grit relationship between “Age of Reason” and America today It took a lot of courage and grit to break off a controlling monarchy to build and become our own country. As science philosophers and politics reoriented themselves during this time it became a movement referred to as the “ Age of Reason”. Throughout Europe it was questioned by its traditional authority, that this could be changed and we could be improved through rational change. In this time many ideas were produced such as books, inventions scientific discoveries, laws and revolutions. Americans was one place that was directly influenced by the Age of Reason. The “Age of Reason” was a time in which humanity grew and changed traditional method from what they knew.
