The Age of Reason, otherwise known as the Age of Enlightenment, began around 1685 and lasted for the majority of the 18th century, until around 1815. After the superstition and religion of the Middle Ages, this new enlightenment era had a focus on individual intellect as well as logic and reasoning. “This opinionated movement called for “enlightenment” – for new thinking about once unquestioned truths and eventually for new actions. Best characterized by the metaphor of light, the Enlightenment has retained the name it acquired early in the eighteenth century” (Jacob, 1). Reading for the sake of education became more popular, and people turned to natural and scientific reasoning, rather than religious. Samuel Johnson, in “The Plan of an English