Well, to answer that, you'd have to think what happened between 1714 and 1814. The answer, of course, is the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the American revolution. And the Romantic reaction to the enlightenment. 1814 was in fact the point at which reaction set in, as Napoleon was defeated and the monarchy was restored in France, and similar semi-returns to the ancien régimes happened elsewhere in Europe, as consolidated by the Treaty of Vienna.

In Britain, for instance, 1814 marked the 100-year anniversary of the accession of George I to begin the rule of the House of Hanover, and it was celebrated, as George III was still on the throne.

So, to answer your question, it would depend on whether the person in question was a reactionary or more progressive. War-weariness and the defeat of Napoleon may have fostered a return to tradition and reaction among the ruling elites of Europe which wasn't shaken seriously until 1848.

But there had certainly been an enormous amount of technological and scientific progress in that century, and a lot of the old superstitious ways of thinking had been seriously challenged by the Enlightenment. The Witchcraft Act of 1735, for instance, made it a crime to accuse people of witchcraft, which reflects to an extent the deterioration of the old superstitious ideas and the popularity of rationalism among the elite in Britain.

"The Witchcraft Act of 1735 was frequently invoked in the early years of the 19th century in an attempt by the political elite to root out "ignorance, superstition, criminality and insurrection" among the general populace, and even more so under a new statute brought in to reinforce the 1735 act in 1824."

"In Owen Davies's reconstruction of events, a change in attitudes occurred at the opening of the nineteenth century, as members of the social elite came to perceive that a faith in magic seemed to be as prevalent among the populace as it had been a hundred years before, even while a growing political turbulence among commoners gave their rulers a new interest in the idea of education and civility as stabilizing forces. Ignorance, superstition, criminality and insurrection seemed increasingly to make up a single package, and one result of this realization was a growing number of prosecutions under the 1736 Act and then considerably more under a new statute which was brought in to reinforce it in 1824." (from this Wikipedia article, citation is "Hutton, Ronald (1999). The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. New York: Oxford University Press").