“Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas: How comes it to be furnished? …to this I answer one word: EXPERIENCE. In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself.” - John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

John Locke and subsequent Enlightenment thinkers were part of an intellectual movement that was propelled by all of the following EXCEPT

Increase in print media,

The ideas of the Scientific Revolution,

Increase in intercontinental travel,

Royal patronage,