…so on. And then up here 1740, this is what's called the European Enlightenment, and a bunch of French people Voltaire, Rousseau philosophers, theoreticians of how human society should be run, produced these screeds, these theoretical texts. But wild men in…

…and money okay well then up here you get a tremendous shift: 1740 this is called the European Enlightenment. It begins with Voltaire, Descartes, those people and it plunges deeply, deeply. Here let's get a little closer focus excuse me going back just a…

…into novelty from roughly 1740 to 1845 is in its early phase what's called the European Enlightenment, the French Encyclopedists, Voltaire, all that, and in its later phase what's called the industrial revolution, the American Revolution, 1776 right here the…

…Observation that mankind will know no peace until the last politician is strangled in the entrails of the last priest? Give us Voltaire here today and let's discuss this. I think he will agree with me. We are the priests we are the politicians. Who's…

…here today and let's discuss this. I think he will agree with me. We are the priests we are the politicians. Who's this Voltaire? He's one of us too but climbing in bed with the dominator institution par excellence as the first move in trying to create…

…hung before a howling mob. Would a civilized society hang anybody huh, would a civilized society hang anybody? Certainly it would. Voltaire said the common people will know no peace until the last politician is strangled publicly in the entrails of the last…

…salon, where people are changing their lives one thought at a time. Well, maybe we shouldn't follow Terence in the direction of Voltaire as he asked but at times don't you think that perhaps old Voltaire got it right after all? Of course Voltaire died…

…maybe we shouldn't follow Terence in the direction of Voltaire as he asked but at times don't you think that perhaps old Voltaire got it right after all? Of course Voltaire died over 200 years ago and now the politicians even outnumber the priests so…

…direction of Voltaire as he asked but at times don't you think that perhaps old Voltaire got it right after all? Of course Voltaire died over 200 years ago and now the politicians even outnumber the priests so about the only solution I can come up with…

…the European Enlightenment. The European Enlightenment was the great intellectual step that set the stage for secular civilization, people like Voltaire and out of that came two revolutions. Well the inquisition would have been, I presume, a fairly UN Novel…

…and they discovered that if you do that, if you take everybody and make them read Plato and John Stuart Mill and Voltaire and Hobbes as we did, that you can't rule such people. They take it too seriously, they become ungovernable, they pour into…