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Answer:</h2><h2><u>Enlightenment</u> thinkers wanted to examine human life in the light of reason. Rational understanding, they felt, would lead to great progress in government and society. These thinkers believed they were making a major break with the past. Like all people, however, they were influenced by what had come before them.</h2>
The answer would be choice C, to end the war in the pacific quickly.
