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The Scottish Enlightenment

Arthur Herman

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The Scottish Enlightenment um so they they were very impressed by and they all studied uh Diderot's Encyclopedia and they came up with their own encyclopedia called the Encyclopedia Britannica which which went from strength to strength for 100 years.

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