■ COMPARATIVE AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ■

1. Question

   What can be gleaned from Williamson’s (Document 18-1) and Wesley’s (Document 18-4) accounts about the prevalence and nature of religious belief in eighteenth-century England?

2. Question

   What do Williamson’s (Document 18-1) and Montagu’s (Document 18-2) accounts suggest about the state and extent of medical knowledge in eighteenth-century Europe?

3. Question

   What can be learned from Williamson’s (Document 18-1), Locke’s (Document 18-3), and Montagu’s (Document 18-2) accounts about attitudes toward children in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

4. Question

   On which aspects of religious belief and practice might Paine (Document 18-5) and Wesley (Document 18-4) agree? On which would they disagree?