Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 232 of Gordon Wood’s great 1991 book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution:

In the decades following the Revolution, American society was transformed. By every measure there was a sudden bursting forth, an explosion – not only of geographical movement but of entrepreneurial energy, of religious passion, and of pecuniary desires. Perhaps no country in the Western world has ever undergone such massive changes in such a short period of time.