This reading was very insightful. It right away begins with a cliff hanger, a question that already makes you think and makes you question your beliefs. This reading answers the real question we all have in this day and era. How fast society changes and how your thoughts could become your reality. In the Enlightenment era different ideas of reason came about and different definitions people had about it. At first we believed we had no voice that only the higher powers such as Queens, Kings, princes only did. But, then we realized they are ordinary regular people and that’s when it all began. Many began to think spiritually, logically, or religiously through the help of the enlightenment writers.  The Enlightenment thinkers and era made people become their own individuals who have ideas and a mind of their own, with a balance of judgment, their senses and knowledge. All this resulted to birth of new nations and new rules introducing modernism. Idea of status and class positions came about in the late seventeenth century and was questioned as well. In every new century, change was occuring more and more and there were more questions that wanted to be answered. Eighteenth century- is slavery ethical? And what about women’s power? I believe because of these writers give us some answers and their thoughts we wouldn’t have the change we do today. All these famous books spread the thoughts of these writers which then led from just a thought to changes and from changes into new acts, rules and rights. The amazing, open-minded, diverse society we have today.