According to Wordsworth, nineteenth-century England has forfeited her ancient virtues.
He says:
<em /><em>Have forfeited their ancient English dower
</em><em>Of inward happiness; We are selfish men.</em>
<u>Answer:</u>
The strong politics of radical reconstruction was largely ineffective in changing the attitudes of White southerners towards African Americans because the white southerners were not mentally ready to accept African Americans as socially equal human beings.
<u>Explanation:</u>
- The efforts taken by radical Republicans in the 1860s and 1870s in order to establish a society without the prevalence of racial discrimination mostly proved unsuccessful.
- The fact that the African Americans were relieved from slavery forever angered most white southerners and culminated in violent clashes between the two.
Answer:
a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent figures included Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
