Friday, July 30, 2021

We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial.

Our trials are nowhere those of the Founding Fathers as they sought to build an Age of Enlightenment aspirational form of government while simultaneously incorporating all the lessons learned from the Greeks and Romans forwards.  But the sentiment echoes.

A letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1774

We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence, I know not.

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