What Children Did Not Learn in School: The Intellectual Quickening of Young Americans in the Nineteenth Century

Thomas Jefferson belonged to a generation of common-sense rationalists who hoped that religious tolerance in the United States would put an end to religious quarreling. Once freed to practice religion as they pleased, adult citizens, Jefferson thought, would recognize the moral advantages of nondogm...

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Main Author: Moore, R. Laurence (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1999
In: Church history
Year: 1999, Volume: 68, Issue: 1, Pages: 42-61
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