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during this period and some of this has to do
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with Enlightenment thinking,
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and some of this has to do with constitutional thinking,
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but you'll see why both men said what they said.
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Now to start with,
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I'm not saying that every single colonist is sitting around
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at this point discussing Bacon, Newton and Locke.
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That's not what I mean.
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This is very much a Jeffersonian parlor
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with these portraits up on the wall,
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but those three men--Bacon, Newton, Locke--and others,
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did contribute to an intellectual atmosphere