• The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but they are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.

  Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. II, SOURCES AND TRADITIONS, p. 26

  Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic
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1. determinative
2. literature
3. revolution
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The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but they are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought. by : Bernard Bailyn

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