Investigating Early American Society through Views on Science and Religion.
This paper draws upon the works of Benjamin Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Alexis de Toquerville in order to demonstrate how these three scholars perceived both science and religion and rectified the presence of both within society, as well as how science and religion have impacted society as a whole. This paper achieves these goals through first presenting a synopsis of each scholar's theories, then comparing and contrasting the significance of their views in a discussion format.