Royalists win English Civil War, clamp down on disloyalty and dissent in both Britain and New England. France wins a war with the United Provinces and ends up annexing the place, clamping down on economic freedoms. Congratulations, you've screwed both things.
 
At the moment much of the Islamic World has fallen back to pre-enlightenment . It may progress again. Europe has gone back and forth as well, as you pointed out. Which shows industrialization is far more established than enlightenment.
Industrialisation will happen, but making it more evolutionary rather than revolutionary seems doable.
 
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