A flamingo that never learned to stand on one leg, that spent most of its time in the water with both legs immersed, would lose somewhere around 40-70% more body heat than a flamingo that did learn this behavior.
The ideas of the Enlightenment played a major role in inspiring the French Revolution, which began in 1789. After the Revolution, the Enlightenment was followed by an opposing intellectual movement known as Romanticism.
The Enlightenment was a period of profound optimism, a sense that with science and reasonâand the consequent shedding of old superstitionsâhuman beings and human society would improve. You can probably tell already that the Enlightenment was anti-clerical; it was, for the most part, opposed to traditional Catholicism.