Which answer choice BEST summarizes how the Enlightenment changed over time? A) The Enlightenment began when small groups and secret societies began having meetings to share their beliefs with one another. Then these ideas began to spread after the publication of Voltaire’s "Philosophical Dictionary" and Diderot’s "Encyclopédie." Finally, its ideas were stamped out by church and government leaders who worried about the unrest they were causing.

B) The Enlightenment preceded a number of other important philosophical movements of the 18th and 19th centuries. Then its ideas were reintroduced as a reaction to the emotional individuality of the Romanticism embraced by many French and American writers. Finally, its ideas inspired Englishmen such as Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes.

C) The Enlightenment was preceded by a wealth of writers and thinkers, but was firmly established as a movement by the works of Newton and Locke. Then its ideas spre