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[citation needed] Far more evidence for it being a European phenomenon derived from Hellenistic philosophical traditions like that of Plato and...

I don't think this holds much water under scrutiny. The British and Dutch became Protestant powers, true, but their love of decentralized rule...

This is a huge subject with a ton of branches to start tackling. It can never really be pinned down to a single factor, not entirely, but we have...