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When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of existences is to talk of . To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are , or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by , , and . { }
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reason
antoine-destutt-de-tracy
antoine-louis-claude-destutt
comte-de-tracy
dugald-stewart
john-locke
john-stewart-mill
stewart
tracy
john-adams
creed
materialism
atheism
angels
locke
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Thomas Jefferson |
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The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
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mccullough
politics-freedom-liberty
john-adams
liberty
government
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David McCullough |
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Remove yourself, sir!
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history
funny
david-mccullough
john-adams
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David McCullough |
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"John Adams, by then one of the country's founding fathers, wrote to a friend: "I know not why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American independence. Many great events have proceeded from much smaller causes."
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john-adams
molasses-act
rum
molasses
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Tom Standage |
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[John Adams] is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. This is all the ill which can possibly be said of him.
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john-adams
thomas-jefferson
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Gordon S. Wood |