According to the author, the Royal Society of London insisted that scientists abandon the A. belief that the primary purpose of scientific discovery was to reveal the divine truth that could be found in nature B. view that scientific knowledge results largely from the insights of a few brilliant individuals rather than from the cooperative efforts of many workers C. seventeenth-century belief that servants should be denied the right to vote because they were dependent on wages paid to them by their employers D. traditional disdain for manual labor that was maintained by most members of the English upper class during the seventeenth-century E. idea that the search for scientific truth was a sign of piety