Enlightenment reformers offered critiques of almost all aspects of European society, from education, to religion, to economics. For the most part, however, philosophes were not revolutionaries. In the determined application of rational thought, they saw a tool for the improvement of human life, not a weapon for destroying all that had come before. Thus, most philosophes supported monarchical government, the European norm in the eighteenth century. Certainly, they saw countless ways in which such governments could be made more efficient, less arbitrary, and more productive of the common good. They did not, however, want to do away with kings.