>Latin was necessary for a professional career, but science was not.<p>With the British industrial revolution, science was almost mandatory.<p>>religious thought became much less central,<p>Well, guess why. Once you get a logical foundation on how the Universe behaves, all of the tribalist, messianic babble goes down the sink.<p>The problem with Humanities/Arts is that they love being hideous and fancy instead of being just fine with any truth we found. No metter which side of Politics you choose; they love having biases like nothing so their prejudices stay on top of the facts.<p>Look what happened with Galileo, or the Google guy stating that, yes, there are differences on which careers men and women choose _on average_, (hormones rule us a lot), and then most 'woke people' began a witch hunt. These people forgot to extrapolate that the more social it's a society, with granted rights, (and nurturing/caring rights/aids), the less the differences will happen on a future.
And, yes, education and context plays a huge rule.
We are like computers, having civilized 'software'(evolved social rules, modern law, 'weird' non-animal customs...) but with outdated hardware (Neolithic era genetics and hormones).<p>That will change over millenia, for sure.<p>Science, OTOH, tries to kill any bias since the beginning.