Dr. Robert Allison
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And we are trying to start something.
And the Constitution, which Ira mentioned, is also an experiment.
David Urim wrote an essay that politics may be reduced to a science.
Thinking, okay, we understand how this natural world is working.
What about the world of politics?
And the American constitutions and the American independence is really an experiment in what happens when we leave the human mind free.
and untrammeled by the coercive power of the state or by old ideas.
So you definitely have in this period an idea that we are creating the world over again.
And Paine says, no one has had this opportunity since the days of Adam and Eve.
And John Adams asks, when before have three million people had the ability to make an election of government any more than they could make an election of climate or soil?
So they understand that this is a remarkable moment they are in, and they're able to take advantage of it because they are beginning to think anew.
Exactly, yes.
Exactly, to argue to prove it wrong or to prove it right.
That is an experiment.
It's amazing how many times they refer to this
as an experiment.
And in the summer of 1787, when the delegates are at Philadelphia drawing up the Constitution, a guy named John Fitch shows an experimental steamboat going up the Delaware River against the current, a machine that will go of itself, which is also what they're thinking about with the Constitution and this other idea.
They're beginning something.
It does.
Yes.
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