lived at a transitional time from the old puritan to the European "Enlightenment." He loved liberty, but believed in a strong centralized government, a nation that would one day be "an empire." He believed that the Constitution would cement the states together. He wanted the federal government to be in control of the states. He favored government controlled education.
John Adams embodies the best and the worst ideas in the War for American Independence. ~Lance
Presbyterians, Creation Days, and Evolution
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In 1830, Sir Charles Lyell argued for uniformitarianism (interpreting the
earth as something formed by continual and uniform processes) in his *Principles
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