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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Aufklaumrung \Auf"kl[aum]*rung\, n. [G., enlightenment.]
     A philosophic movement of the 18th century characterized by a
     lively questioning of authority, keen interest in matters of
     politics and general culture, and an emphasis on empirical
     method in science. It received its impetus from the
     unsystematic but vigorous skepticism of Pierre Bayle, the


     physical doctrines of Newton, and the epistemological
     theories of Locke, in the preceding century. Its chief center
     was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of
     Voltaire, the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of
     Condillac, and the publication of the "Encyclopedia" by
     D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and
     Herder were representative thinkers, while the political
     doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the
     speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine
     represented the movement in America.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

















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