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Wagner, Marta – 1983
Positions taken in Phi Beta Kappa orations between 1782 and 1837 were examined to determine whether partisan stands were taken on controversial issues. The orations that were located suggest that the speakers' social and political choices did not correlate with specific systems of ideas. The Enlightenment offered intellectual arguments as ways to…
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