Relax before you start eating, and then eat slowly. Remember it takes time for your stomach to tell your brain that you're full. Stop a quarter of the way through your meal, and check your hunger level. If you're still hungry, keep eating, but stop again at the halfway point.
Commerce of Thought. The Age of American Enlightenment can be roughly dated as the half-century from 1765 to 1815.(Cassara, 25) Many key events happened and many key individuals existed before these years but the central events of the American Enlightenment occurred within these dates.
The Enlightenment in England. The first major Enlightenment figure in England was Thomas Hobbes, who caused great controversy with the release of his provocative treatise Leviathan (1651). Taking a sociological perspective, Hobbes felt that by nature, people were self-serving and preoccupied with the gathering of a limited number of resources.