England's Royal Society and France's Royal Academy of Sciences Demonstrated

England's Royal Society and France's Royal Academy of Sciences demonstrated the

A) many opportunities for common, everyday people to pursue scholarship in the sciences.
B) benefits of state-supported inquiry and learning.
C) depletion in government resources, resulting in its inability to support the sciences.
D) government's acceptance of radical speculations like those of Spinoza.
E) government's attempts to tarnish the "gentlemanly" reputation of the republic of letters.