[lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 20:11:24 PDT 2010


On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:

We're talking about revolutions after 1750,
> which Jefferson certainly had more influence on (both in the US and in
> France) than Calvin and Aquinas combined.
>

Are you sure? I'm no scholar of the American Revolution (for some reason, I've always found the episode irredeemably boring), but I am aware that it was commonly called "the Presbyterian Revolt" in Great Britain.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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