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Archive for Friday, May 8, 2009
To John Woolman on John Locke & John Adams
Friday, May 8, 2009 by Jay T.
This morning I came to see what seminal work the Friends were doing in 1755–1758. You relate it well in Chapter Five of the Journal. I notice that you and the editorial committee have brought together many of the entries you made on the scruples of Friends about war–particularly about paying taxes to support it. Some of these events are taken from events that happened before the close of the previous chapter.
This grouping that has been done has been juxtaposed in my mind with the biography I’m currently reading about John Adams, the Massachusetts representative to the Continental Congress that convened in Philadelphia less than a decade later. From Adams actions I came to see how they were learning to put the understandings on natural law of John Locke and other thinkers from the century before yours into plans and resolutions about government and its role in the lives of men. Read the rest of this entry »
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