. There can be no doubt that print helps the spread of ideas but we must remember that people did not read just one kind of literature. . If they read the ideas of Voltaire and Rousseau, they were also exposed to monarchical and Church propaganda. . They were not influenced directly by everything they read or saw. . They accepted some ideas and rejected others. They interpreted things their own way. . Print did not directly shape their minds but it did open up the possibility of thinking differently.