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Montaigne and the cannibals -- Tabula Rasa and utopia -- Magna Charta and the word of God -- The pride of being English -- The war -- Independence -- The national vocation -- Thomas Jefferson and Saint-Just -- Sparta, Rome, the Land of Cockaigne, or Tartary -- The Declaration of Independence -- Congress and the Declaration -- The American Revolution -- Once more Montaigne but other cannibals -- Jefferson against Hamilton -- Karl Marx, America, and the Hippocratic Oath -- The chapter of the hats -- The only American economist of importance -- The prophet of a new messiah -- A trial of orthodoxy -- Samuel Gompers and Lenin. |
