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"The whole Freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty. The enjoyment of those never more certain, than in a free commonwealth. Both which, in my opinion, may be best and soonest obtained, if every county in the land were made a kind of subordinate commonalty or commonwealth.”. Milton.

"The Reformation made another enormous stride, when at the American Revolution the State and the Church were solemnly and openly dissevered from one another."—Draper, Intellectual Development of Europe.

"Not Democracy in America, but free Christianity in America, is the real key to the study of the People and their Institutions."-Goldwin Smith.

THE MAKING

OF THE

AMERICAN NATION;

OR

THE RISE AND DECLINE OF OLIGARCHY

IN THE WEST.

"Cette vieille Europe m'ennui."-Napoleon.

"Soon after the Reformation a few people came over for conscience sake. This apparently trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America."-John Adams.

"America is therefore the land of the future where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the world's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of old Europe."-Hegel.

"As interesting mankind the question was, shall the Reformation developed to the fulness of free inquiry, succeed in its protest against the middle ages."-Bancroft.

"The more a man is versed in business the more he finds the hand of Providence everywhere.”—Chatham.

"You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this DECLARATION. Yet through all the gloom, I can see that the end is more than worth all the means; and that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction."― John Adams, 3rd July, 1776.

"The Declaration of Independence constituted a sacred pledge in the name of God, solemnly given by each State, to abolish slavery soon as practicable, and to substitute Freedom in its place." John Quincy Adams, 1844.

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