 Significantly, and unlike subsequent Enlightenment thinkers, Thomasius is also explicit in holding that because the attainment of learnedness is possible wholly through the use of the natural (rather than the supernatural) light of the mind (cf. Thomasius 1691a: ch. 1, §16), it is accessible by all, regardless of gender or class (for more on this, see  §6.1,  below).