Sure, but this was much later, fueled by the enlightenment and even then very much the exception to the rule. Not to mention, it didn’t exactly look like a success for decades afterwards, with ordinary people getting the short end of the stick even more so than before. Imagine telling someone suffering under or because of the brutal warmonger and arguably first modern dictator Napoleon that the French revolution that allowed him to him ascend the throne was a blessing for humanity or even just the French.