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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.
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. II, SOURCES AND TRADITIONS, p. 260
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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