Enlightened people cease to define themselves in terms of place, history, tribe or dynasty, and lay claim instead to a universal human nature, whose laws are valid for all mankind. The response of some Enlightenment thinkers was to find sacredness not in church and state but in nature; adventurers like Captain Cook and Sir Joseph Banks were thought to have found Eden in Tahiti, with its endless supply of breadfruit, coconuts, and Polynesian houris. As Dorinda Outram points out, Enlightenment thinkers enjoyed ‘new forms of sociability centring on ideas’ which originated in the London coffeehouses where, in the second half of the eighteenth century, Franklin read colonial newspapers and associated with his countrymen and their allies. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy was echoed in a Romantic fascination with literary forms that were thought to pre-date the manner of which Pope and Dryden were exponents.