ABSTRACT
In the eighteenth century, French philosophers concluded that human society should be made all over again. It should be returned to harmony with the basic laws and principles that were inherent in nature itself, but which had unfortunately been put under a dark cloud when classical antiquity went to its ruin – or perhaps even since the dawn of mankind. The principles that had been lost and waited to be retrieved were those of reason. At some point in history, man lost sight of his own inherent rationality. He plunged himself into ignorance and darkness, and thus caused unreason to prevail.
