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KittyWampus

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Thu Jan-14-10 01:05 PM
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6. I'd argue they weren't "ordinary men". They were more educated, broader minded, and saw much farther

Edited on Thu Jan-14-10 01:06 PM by KittyWampus

than ordinary men of their day and even ordinary men of today.

History has seen bursts of brilliance in art and politics.

It's one thing to put the Founders in context, it's another to try and pretend they were your average work-a-day schlubs.

They were endowed, individually and as a group, with an EXTRA-ordinary admixture of the Practical and Visionary.

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