Cataracts caused parts of the riverbed today out.
The Age of Enlightenment promoted a confidence in reason or intellectual enquiry to bring greater happiness and progress to humanity; a belief that all aspects of the human and natural worlds are susceptible of rational explanation; and the desire to battle against ignorance, dogma, superstition, injustice and oppression.
The Church court dealt mainly with moral crimes. This was when an accused person claimed the right to be tried in the more lenient Church courts. In theory, this right was intended only for priests.
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