Our Revolutionary Heritage

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Excerpt from Our Revolutionary Heritage: Some Thoughts on the Meaning of the American Revolution Washington and Franklin, Jefferson and Tom Paine, and their cc-revolutionaries believed that the American people had a Heaven-sent opportunity to triumph over the past and to mold the future. That was What Washing ton meant when he wrote that the Founda tion of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epocha when the Rights of Man kind were better understood and more clear Iy defined than at any former period. That is what Jefferson meant when he wrote of America that this whole chapter in the history of man is new. The great extent of our territory is new. The mighty wave of public opinion which has rolled over it is new. That is what the French philos 0pher-statesman Turgot meant when he wrote of the Americans that this people is the hope of the human race. Perhaps Tom Paine put it better than any one else: the American, he said, is a new Adam in a new Paradise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.