(R)Evolutionary Beliefs

Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address.
Not so many years ago, in a country so very near to where we are now, it would not have been necessary to defend the Founding Fathers on slavery. The men who made the American Revolution were deemed to have put black slavery at bay and planted the seeds for the recognition of black equality and for the eventual end of slavery.
I recall being taught to revere these men, giants of their time and for all time. These men were genius revolutionaries of the highest order, who transformed the very fabric of the world. The Founding Fathers were exceptional intellectuals, brilliant scholars, and patriots who drafted the master plan for the world's first democracy since Athens. They designed the blueprint that inspired everyone who came after them. Their ideas represented the greatest quantum leap in societal evolution since the introduction of the New Testament.
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