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[log in to unmask] (Mason Gaffney)
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Tue May 15 07:53:14 2007
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Yuri Tulupenko characterizes Condorcet's speech as "infamous". This passes
from historiography to opining. Even those commentators who defend
Condorcet, do so rather apologetically. 

Please remember, though, that Jefferson's Declaration of Independence was
also revolutionary: it was in the Zeitgeist. Rural renters in the U.S.A.
were also engaged in burning rent rolls and abusing and evicting and exiling
Tory landowners during the American Revolution, so much so that some 1/3 of
the lands in the colonies were confiscated from Tories by the time it was
over. There has never been any suggestion of compensation from this, the
most conservative nation on earth today. (Canadians do suggest it now and
then, but mostly in a spirit of badinage, not seriously.) American
historians have generally treated this as an act of patriotism, and
justifiable retribution for past appropriations and abuses. If so in
America, how much moreso in France?

Mason Gaffney

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