The Founders on Religion: A Book of QuotationsJames H. Hutson Princeton University Press, 10. nov. 2009 - 288 strani 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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... becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ.”11 Madison's religious fervor did not persist and, as the years passed, he became, according to a friend, sympathetic to Unitarianism and, if a recent scholar is to be credited, an ...
... become apparent. Can the opinions of this multitude be captured by the views of a small group? Quote books solve this problem by a fiction of representation that assumes that if the few Founders quoted are carefully chosen from all ...
... becomes more sober as Life advances; and flattens as life descends. He who lately overflowed with Cheerfull Spirits and high hopes, begins to look back with heaviness on the days of former years. He thinks of his old companions who are ...
... become rational and immortal. There is room enough in the universe. . . . Why should we set limits then to our benevolence, or the predominant benevolence in the Universe. Let Sensibility, Animation, Intelligence, Virtue and Happiness ...
... becomes habitual, which is the great Point for its Security; and perhaps you are indebted to her originally that is to your Religious Education, for the Habits of Virtue upon which you now justly value yourself. You might easily display ...