1From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1815 (Adams Papers)
. In consequence of these Reveries I have imagined that Camus and the Institute, meant, by the revival and continuance of the Acta Sanctorum, to destroy the Pope and the Catholic Church and Hierarchy, de fondi en comble, or in the language of Frederick, Voltaire, D’Alembert &c “ecrasor le miserable,” “crush the Wretch.” This great Work must contain......to the history of the Revolution, my...
2John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
, meant, by the revival and continuance of the Acta Sanctorum, to destroy the Pope and the Catholic Church and Hierarchy, As to the history of the Revolution, my Ideas may be peculiar, perhaps Singular. What do We mean by the Revolution? The War? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an Effect and Consequence of it... ...in the Minds of the People, and this was effected, from 1760 to...to