Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the first school for the blind; and how Benjamin Franklin's electrical physics, ascribing desires to nature, engaged French economic reformers — age of reason v. age of
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