The 1700-1820s: The Age Of Enlightenment

Through the 1700-1820s was considered to be The Age of Enlightenment. During this time many people went through changes in how they think. It was a time of separation form belief or faith to knowledge, a time to instruct or inform (a person) about knowledge , a time where people let go of what they previously knew and opened their minds to the possibilities of new knowledge. It was if a small amount of light was introduced into the darkness of a cave and people decided to follow the source of light and were enlightened with knowledge. A person can only truly free themselves to find new knowledge by separating themselves from their comfort zone. As Benjamin Franklin states in The Way to Wealth; “The borrower is a slave to the lender”(Franklin). By a person continuing to not disembark from what they know, they will always be the slave to their knowledge past and never learn anything new. But if a person is to separate from the past knowledge they will become free to find new ways of thinking and grasp new concepts of life. They will no longer be blind in the dark but rather seen in the dark with light (knowledge). During The Age of Enlightenment, many people who found this enlightenment of knowledge instructed and informed the people of this way of thinking. …show more content…
As stated by Thomas Paine in “From Common Sense”, "We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty" (Paine). After The Age of Enlightenment some people became enlightened with new knowledge and shared it with others. The enlightened people took knowledge for many different sources and were open minded to learning more and informed people of this knew found