These were exciting times, and discussions pervaded the salons of continental Europe and lodges of Great Britain. "Freemasonry, a moral and ethical society, taught the 18th century ideals of equality and the importance of education in freeing mankind from prejudice, superstition, and social injustice." 3. With the closing of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance became a period of intense discussion over discoveries in new art techniques, the meaning of religion in a person's life, new understandings of the curious laws of science, the nuances of philosophy in terms of life and government, and new approaches to the form of music with musical instruments that had not been used together before. As time passed, gradually, the speculative masons coalesced into a separate group. Later these same men would be called "speculative masons" to distinguish them from "operative" or working men in the trade of masonry.
Men of high character, morals, and intellect were asked to join various guilds as "admitted or gentlemen masons". During the Renaissance many of the former guilds changed form.
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