Floodlights and Goalposts

An online commonplace book

What does the Enlightenment mean?

Most of all, at Harvard, John Adams learned to be a child of the Enlightenment. What does that mean?

Thomas E. Ricks

Many books are filled with answers. I like the ones that ask questions.

Ricks, Thomas E.. First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country. United States, HarperCollins, 2020. pp55


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