• Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.

  Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 231

  Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic
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1. men-intellectuals
2. ignorant-gathered
3. constructing
4. enlightened
5. governments
6. learned

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Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments. by : Bernard Bailyn

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