These ideas, which are employed by all of in our ordinaryunenlightenedlives, will ultimately prove themselves to be a misconstrual of reality.
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This work broadly achieves what it sets out to do - which is to inform the 'unenlightened' - and it does this well.
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As obstructive undergrowth, the jungle represented an impediment to progress; as an environment for hostile predators it signified the dread characteristics of man'sunenlightenedstate.
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While initially plausible, this reasoning ignores the difference between actualunenlightenedhumans, who suffer from obscure perception in the intellect, and enlightened humans.
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In still other instances, no group may claim responsibility, leaving the governmentunenlightenedas to the perpetrator or its orientation.
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Neither self-evidence nor self-interest could compelunenlightenedgovernments and/ or their unenlightened subjects to square conduct with, for example, the natural necessity to form a peaceable society.
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I do not think that period was altogetherunenlightened.
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Does he accept that there are still someunenlightenedlocal authorities that seem to believe that out-of-town developments are beneficial?
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That is the voice ofunenlightenedself-interest—the voice of teacher training colleges and lecturers.
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That is a veryunenlightenedattitude on the part of employers.
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The point is that we have to get across this message, not to the converted, but to the old-fashioned andunenlightened.
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I believe that in this matter of prejudice we are all either enlightened or veryunenlightened.
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Under that system ofunenlightenedself-interest we built these slums, which are the foulest and most shameful things which human beings have ever built.
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In the oldunenlighteneddays, when we had no thoughts of conservation, we had an effective system for getting rid of refuse into the water.
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There are three ways in which it is clear that public opinion on this great subject is at present very uninformed and veryunenlightened.
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