Now after I looked up Kant, I realize that Iv’e studied him in philosophy, wikipedia is a great refreshing tool. Kant was a man that didnt believe in religion all too much due to being very skeptic about the whole institution, and was thus an agnostic. All info taken from wikipedia.

In the essay he goes to say royalty, in particular the king should be granting freedom to the people, at the very least freedom of the mind. However even if you disagree with that, you cannot argue as he says that you must give royalty credit for being “the man who first liberated mankind from immaturity”, this speaking of how government is what organized the people in history. With an organized people, came organized thought, and lots of enlightenment be it of culture, technology, the arts, or anything else that had to be developed.