Literature from which period reflected the writers' beliefs that people were naturally good and had the power to change many things about the world?

The answer would be : Enlightenment period.

During this period, there were a lot of literatures that wrote in a non-confrontational manner that beliefs that people were naturally good and had the power to change many things about the world

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