Enlightenment ideas and the belief in progress leading up to the Industrial Revolution

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Using textual analysis of 173,031 works printed in England between 1500 and 1900, we test whether British culture evolved to manifest a heightened belief in progress associated with science and industry. Our analysis yields three main findings. First, there was a separation in the…

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