The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term “people” to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it
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“Never before had Jewish morality and Greek philosophy been fused to such momentous effect. That the law of the God of Israel might be read inscribed on the human heart, written there by his Spirit, was a notion that drew alike on the teachings of Pharisees and Stoics—and yet equally was foreign to them both.”
― Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
― Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Early American Literature
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Some of the world's greatest literature was written in America, from its colonial beginnings through the early 20th century (up to World War I). This ...more
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