Forgotten Founders Quotes
Cohen also found the influence of Indian thought in Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau,”and their various contemporaries.” Anticipating the arguments of Charles Sanford nine years later, Cohen implied that many of the doctrines that played so crucial a role in the American Revolution were fashioned by European savants from observation of the New World and its inhabitants.
The product of the intellectual traffic, the theories that played a role in rationalizing rebellion against England, may have been fabricated in Europe, but the raw materials from which they were made were, to Cohen, substantially of indigenous American origin.
Cohen, continuing his synthesis of a hundred years of suggestions that Indian ideas helped shape America’s and Europe’s intellectual traditions, asserted that “the greatest teachers of American democracy have gone to school with the Indian.”
Cohen also asserted that Thomas Jefferson freely acknowledged his debt to the conceptions of liberty held by American Indians, and favorably compared the liberty he saw in Indian politics with the oppression of Europe in his time.
Cohen also found the influence of Indian thought in Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau,”and their various contemporaries.” Anticipating the arguments of Charles Sanford nine years later, Cohen implied that many of the doctrines that played so crucial a role in the American Revolution were fashioned by European savants from observation of the New World and its inhabitants.
The product of the intellectual traffic, the theories that played a role in rationalizing rebellion against England, may have been fabricated in Europe, but the raw materials from which they were made were, to Cohen, substantially of indigenous American origin.
Cohen, continuing his synthesis of a hundred years of suggestions that Indian ideas helped shape America’s and Europe’s intellectual traditions, asserted that “the greatest teachers of American democracy have gone to school with the Indian.”
Cohen also asserted that Thomas Jefferson freely acknowledged his debt to the conceptions of liberty held by American Indians, and favorably compared the liberty he saw in Indian politics with the oppression of Europe in his time.
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