An Empire of Reason - The Higher Law
For a thousand years they would not stand together. Greek reason was the pride of the pagans the Church had buried; Roman law was the law of the empire that fed Christians to the lions; and the philos...
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An Empire of Reason - Christian Morality
In the year 1 BC, an ordinary, loving husband wrote home to his pregnant wife with a casual instruction: if the child is a girl, expose it. It was normal. It was legal. And it captures the world that ...
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An Empire of Reason – Roman Law
The Romans had a horror of one word — rex, king — and after they threw out their last one, they spent five centuries building a government designed so that no single man could ever rule them again. Th...
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An Empire of Reason – Greek Logic
In 585 BC, the sun went dark over a battlefield — and one Greek had said it would, not by reading the will of the gods, but by working out that the heavens run on a pattern the human mind can grasp. T...
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An Empire of Reason – Inheritance of the West
We hold these truths to be self-evident — but they were not self-evident. For almost the whole of human history, on nearly every patch of the globe, the opposite was assumed: that men are born unequal...
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The French and Indian War - Pontiac’s War
In the spring of 1763, the British colonies were lighting bonfires for the greatest victory in their history — and within weeks the frontier they had just won was burning. This is the story of Pontiac...
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The French and Indian War - A Few Acres of Snow
In the spring of 1760, two armies sat outside Quebec and stared at the river, because whoever’s ships came first would win a continent. This is the story of how the French and Indian War ended — and h...
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The French and Indian War - The Cherokee War
While the British took Quebec in the north, the southern colonies fought a war almost nobody up north was watching — a brutal frontier war against the Cherokee, the most powerful nation of the souther...
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