This challenging book is printed in typescript of adequate size for those readers whose eyesight might be declining. Part one analyses the meaning of “democracy”, but the advice in print at the head of its ‘Table of Contents’ that ‘The US, England and France are not democracies’ – gives a due.
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That century with its agricultural and industrial revolutions, the Wesley and English Methodism, the sciences, the challenge of slavery, the French and American revolutions, Thomas Paine and other enlightened thinkers, but then the loss of the colonies – was not an easy stage on which a woman might make her case.
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In 1793, speaking to the French National Convention on the 19th of January Paine declared, “My language has always been that of liberty and humanity, and I know that nothing so exalts a nation as the union of these two principles, under all circumstances.”
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