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Science and Literature in the West | The Beginnings of the Secular State

May 27, 2008 by Marge Anderson

There was throughout the West a growing interest in scientific inquiry that served to unite peoples.

Science had always been international, since ideas cannot be restrained within the borders of a state, but technology—that is, the application of science to practical ends—may for a time be held within the confines of a single nation through legislation or restrictions on immigration.

Thus England, France, and the German states were cautiously setting themselves apart from the ready acceptance of all logic as deriving from churchly authority.

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