Revolutionary Values for a New Millennium: John Adams, Adam Smith, and Social VirtueLexington Books, 2000 - 233 pages In his study, Hill challenges common interpretations of the political thought of Adams and Smith, providing scholars and students with an engaging and novel portrait of social and political theory in America, at its founding and at the inception of the twenty-first century. |
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Page 29
... religion " which required tolerance : " Perhaps there are few surer marks of the reality of religion , than when a man feels himself more joined in spirit to a true holy person of a different denomina- tion , than to an irregular liver ...
... religion " which required tolerance : " Perhaps there are few surer marks of the reality of religion , than when a man feels himself more joined in spirit to a true holy person of a different denomina- tion , than to an irregular liver ...
Page 196
... religion , as religion , conduces to good citizenship . Religious lead- ers , in return for the benefit inherent in the right to practice religion free of state interference , must understand that they play a major role in politics ...
... religion , as religion , conduces to good citizenship . Religious lead- ers , in return for the benefit inherent in the right to practice religion free of state interference , must understand that they play a major role in politics ...
Page 197
... religion ; it does not , indeed cannot , require the separation of politics and religion . To expect rigid separation of religion and politics is to expect the impossible because religious people would then either have to be schizoid ...
... religion ; it does not , indeed cannot , require the separation of politics and religion . To expect rigid separation of religion and politics is to expect the impossible because religious people would then either have to be schizoid ...
Contents
Revolutionary Values | 21 |
Virtues for Democratic Citizens | 59 |
Individuality within Communities | 83 |
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