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As the modern scientist Rupert Sheldrake writes, the seventeenth century saw “a vast inflation of the ambition to dominate and control nature, a way of treating the natural world as if it had no
inherent value or life of its own, and an overthrow of traditional restraints on
human knowledge and power.”
--- I'm not sure I understand the last sentence. Does it say that the traditional restraints disappeared and people started to feel very powerful and wise?
As the modern scientist Rupert Sheldrake writes, the seventeenth century saw “a vast inflation of the ambition to dominate and control nature, a way of treating the natural world as if it had no
inherent value or life of its own, and an overthrow of traditional restraints on
human knowledge and power.”
--- I'm not sure I understand the last sentence. Does it say that the traditional restraints disappeared and people started to feel very powerful and wise?
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Yes. Before that, Christianity in particular emphasized that there were limits to man's ability to understand the universe.
- Yes.
- Before that, Christianity in particular emphasized that there were limits to man's ability to understand the universe.
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Yes. Before that, Christianity in particular emphasized that there were limits to man's ability to understand the universe.
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