The fight for humanity started long ago, with words and blood. In history, four people, philosophes, came together to further the equality of man. During the age of reason, these philosophes wrote documents to detail their ideas. The documents that attract our eyes are A, B, C, and D, from the works of these philosophes. Scholarly individuals during the age of reason, which took place in the 17th and 18th centuries, studied about and fought for certain rights regarding humanity in a natural manner, therefore bringing a sense of equality. The first document that deigns examination is A, put to paper by the illustrious Englishman John Locke. His document correlates to equality strongly. He states it is the natural right of the people to order their actions, as he says, ¨We must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of nature¨ (Locke, Of the State of Nature). As he says, it is the natural right of humanity to have their freedoms regarding the government, and their place as a citizen.…show more content… Document D, summoned to our world through the female philosophe Mary Wollstonecraft, a wealthy Englishwoman, who stresses that if women had the same education as men, they’d be just as good as men. She says this here, “To render mankind more virtuous, and happier of course, both sexes must act from the same principle;... women must be allowed to found their virtue on knowledge, which is scarcely possible unless they be educated by the same pursuits as men.” (Wollstonecraft, On National Education). During the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft wrote these words, which is a further pursuit of human equality. She used a simple factor in her conclusions, simply mere reason. This would go well with the Age of Reason from whence she wrote and
