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Know then thyself; presume not God to scan:

The proper study of mankind is man.

These words, by English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744), reflect a major historical turn in thought about the human condition and how to best understand it. Pope lived during the period that would become known as the Enlightenment, when the power and potential of reason began to be regarded as the surest source of valid insights about what it means to be human. In a real sense, contemporary science, in all of its many forms, is a child of the Enlightenment, its birth signaled by Pope's ...

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