The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... Republic requires a basic act of mutual recognition between leaders and led . The vigor in a slogan like E Pluribus Unum , the motto that Franklin , Adams , and Jefferson select for the Continental Congress , consists in its ...
... Republic requires a basic act of mutual recognition between leaders and led . The vigor in a slogan like E Pluribus Unum , the motto that Franklin , Adams , and Jefferson select for the Continental Congress , consists in its ...
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... Republic often resort to conventional images of light in coping with problems of perception and order . With characteristic optimism , Thomas Jefferson in 1813 sees education as the passing of light from one taper to another , and ...
... Republic often resort to conventional images of light in coping with problems of perception and order . With characteristic optimism , Thomas Jefferson in 1813 sees education as the passing of light from one taper to another , and ...
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... Republic " wealthy , honorable , powerful , and happy " or vice will plunge it " into a state of the greatest calamities . " He and other friends of the Republic see no middle path , no alternative to absolute success or total failure ...
... Republic " wealthy , honorable , powerful , and happy " or vice will plunge it " into a state of the greatest calamities . " He and other friends of the Republic see no middle path , no alternative to absolute success or total failure ...
Contents
What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
Copyright | |
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