Down-to-earth  

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"Perhaps the Enlightenment was a more down-to-earth affair than the rarefied climate of opinion described by textbook writers, and we should question the overly highbrow, overly metaphysical view of intellectual life in the eighteenth century."--The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982) by Robert Darnton

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Practical; realistic; pragmatic.

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