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and some of its intellectual implications,
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but what about the other half of the story?
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What about Hamilton's comment about Julius Caesar
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and Jefferson's I'm-going-to-be-
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shocked-for-three-decades response?
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this aspect of the story reveals another related aspect
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of the Enlightenment mentality.
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It shows how immediate and relevant the ancient world--
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and actually history generally--
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was to Enlightenment thinkers,
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and I suppose, just in the eighteenth century generally.
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An idea that's--again--related to this idea