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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... people who composed this population are accessible in any form is, it should be observed, a subject that historians have vigor- ously debated in recent decades. The present volume, to summarize, is a work of scholar-. xvi Preface.
... observations in your last Letter upon your Solicitude; and your reflections upon your Age and feelings, led me to a train of Reflections upon that period of Life to which we are both hastning, to that period when the wise Man hath told ...
... observations, that it appeard to present itself to me this day with peculiar force, upon reading your Letter. Worldly prosperity declines with declining life. In Youth its relish was brisk and poignant. It becomes more sober as Life ...
... observe, without their great exertions & severe sufferings the USA had never existed. Under the auspices and direction of Divine Providence, your forefathers removed to the wilds and wilderness of America. By their industry they made it ...
... observed indeed generally that, while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in Catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, Dalembert, D'Holbach, Condorcet, are known to ...