In chapter twelve, The Industrial Revolution: The Test of a Worldview, Wells discusses the Industrial Revolution and how it was a change that showed the workings of the Enlightenment. Throughout the Enlightenment, people believed they find the laws of nature, and manipulate them to fit their needs and shape their world. With the Industrial Revolution, people took the law discovered on the Enlightenment and applied them to economics, politics, religion, social ideas and forces, and science. Life for the people in the Industrial Revolution became slowly better even though the life span was the same. The was of life became more Economic Modernization. More and more people were leaving the farming business to work in factories which caused
