It happened in the 1800s because of thomas jefferson
To rebuild the shattered economies of Western Europe after WW2.
The main way in which the causes of the enlightenment were similar to the causes of the industrial revolution was that both focusses on the "common man" instead of the elite.
Thomas Hobbes
In this state, every person has a natural right to do anything one thinks necessary for preserving one's own life, and life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" (Leviathan, Chapters XIII–XIV).