CHY 4U - Modern Western Civilization - The West and the World Catherine, Frederick and Louis - Unenlightened Tyrants in an Enlightened Age It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, - The Prince The Enlightenment is touted by modern historians as a time of intellectual and social advancement, an era of optimism and freedom unheard of in earlier times. The era of absolutism is seen as …showed first 75 words of 1444 total…

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