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“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
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Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
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