This serves as a collection of artifacts that examines the relationship between the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment. Though both were concurrent and abstract cultural and intellectual movements that affected the colonies, they were founded upon very different principles. While in some cases this caused them to be at odds with one another, as Old Lights appealed to Enlightenment reason and criticized the emotional fervor of the revivals, the two movements could also make common cause, visible in efforts related to religious liberty pursued by Isaac Backus and Solomon Paine, as well as the peculiar friendship Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield enjoyed.