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The Americans closely followed English and Scottish political ideas, as well as some French thinkers such as Montesquieu.[52][53] During the Enlightenment there was a great emphasis upon liberty, democracy, republicanism and religious tolerance. Attempts to reconcile science and religion resulted in a widespread rejection of prophecy, miracle and revealed religion in preference for Deism - especially by Thomas Paine in "The Age of Reason" and by Thomas Jefferson in his short Jefferson Bible - from which all supernatural aspects were removed. Benjamin Franklin was influential in America, England, Scotland,[54] and France, for his political activism and for his advances in physics.[55] |
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