Enormous human betterment has occurred since The Enlightenment, chiefly because crusading liberals overcame conservative resistance, time after time. Modern democracy arose because America’s radical founders renounced the divine right of kings and took up arms against England and George III. They created government of the people, with no aristocracy. Slavery ended because radical abolitionists hammered More
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James Haught | Radio Free (2021-07-26T08:37:37+00:00) Human Progress. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2021/07/26/human-progress/
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