Many people, Enlightenment thinkers, only in Western Civilization at the time, talked, wrote, and some believed in, others only pretended to believe in, what they then called the rights of man, of a brotherhood of man, and of one universal democratic republican revolutionary world, one civilization, only, and entire, of liberty and equality for all.
This group of ideas had its critics back then.
This was not a realistic ideal or ideology, but it shook Western Civilization to its foundations, forever, and has since shaken to their foundations all civilizations in its wake.
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