The new philosophers of the 17th century broke from the religious dogma of the day to explain the workings of the world on a nontheological basis. Sir Francis Bacon and René Descartes believed human beings had the power to reason out the meaning of their own existence. Sir Isaac Newton and Voltaire believed the universe was ruled by natural laws rather than by the direct hand of God.
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