American Literature 1700-1820 해석

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An Expanding World and Universe
•While the early colonial period in America had been characterized by European settlers' theocentric view of the world (that is, a belief in the centrality of God in all things), the eighteenth century was characterized by a new conviction that the human mind could comprehend, and sometimes control, the physical universe and that sympathy and fellow feeling, rather than supernatural grace, was the basis of moral life. Historians often refer to this new worldview as the Enlightenment.
•Influenced by these Enlightenment ideals, colonists by the end of the eighteenth century established a new, and revolutionary, political order based on democratic principles.
•Some of these changes in the American colonies were brought about through the enormous increase in population of settlers from Europe who brought with them diverse perspectives and beliefs.

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