⑵ The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement originating in France, which attractedwidespread support among the ruling and intellectual classes of Europe and NorthAmerica in the second half of the 18th century. It characterizes the efforts by certainEuropean writers to use critical reason to free minds from prejudice, unexaminedauthority and oppression by Church or State. Therefore the Enlightenment is sometimescalled the Age of Reason.（15 分）