UNIT 1 #6

6.) Rationalist have thought to believe all humans can improve their lives by doing it theirselves. Puritans belived in order to improve anything they would have to ask god for the improvement. To the Puritans using science to do this is disobeying god, while Rationalist found it to be the best way of doing things. Rationalist use real things in reality to be able to live better and Puritains thought of it as a bad thing to god. The Rationalist also believed that the whole universe could be explained by logic, but Puritains did not believe it was appropriate.