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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Page 37
... virtue . They also argue all sides of the question with considerable facility . While the newness of history in America is a favorite theme , so is the assumption that Americans have somehow outdistanced European peoples by a thousand ...
... virtue . They also argue all sides of the question with considerable facility . While the newness of history in America is a favorite theme , so is the assumption that Americans have somehow outdistanced European peoples by a thousand ...
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... virtue resides not in the act of clarification , a frequent call in the early 1780s , but in the clarifying result , the battle cry of ratification in 1788. The Constitution becomes not a symptom of virtue but the extent of virtue then ...
... virtue resides not in the act of clarification , a frequent call in the early 1780s , but in the clarifying result , the battle cry of ratification in 1788. The Constitution becomes not a symptom of virtue but the extent of virtue then ...
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... virtue against European avarice , the American historian rightly extols that virtue in a narrative of events , and , finally , virtue itself declines dangerously in the aftermath of the Revolution . All three premises dictate vigorous ...
... virtue against European avarice , the American historian rightly extols that virtue in a narrative of events , and , finally , virtue itself declines dangerously in the aftermath of the Revolution . All three premises dictate vigorous ...
Contents
What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
Copyright | |
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