The Founders on Religion: A Book of QuotationsJames H. Hutson Princeton University Press, 2009 M11 10 - 288 páginas What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship between church and state to the status of women, it is the most comprehensive and trustworthy resource available on this timely topic. |
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... minds and souls and offer generalizations about the firmness of their faith. There is, in fact, a debate among scholars about the degree of reli- gious conviction, society-wide, during the Founding period, some arguing that the older ...
... mind” of the Founding generation, which can be captured by the aggregated weight of the quotations presented. But if the definition of a Founder is expanded from a select few to the hundreds— no, thousands—of patriots who participated ...
... mind and body usefully occupied . . . avoid idle companions addicted to the same failing; which has hitherto overcome all your good resolutions of amendment, and probably theirs. Idleness, says Solomon, is the root of all evil, and St ...
... mind no comfort in this life, and the thought of your dying without reformation and repentance of the consequences in the next is most dreadful. Ibid., June 1, 1815, reel 3. In writing to you I deem it my duty to call your attention to ...
... mind of that man be, who wishes to persuade himself, from the dread of punishment in a future state, the inevitable consequence of vice unrepented in this, that he is not of a nature superior to that of his dog and horse, limited like ...