tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post7679430288516401199..comments2023-10-15T04:05:30.697-04:00Comments on Rambling Rebuilder: Your Servant; G.WashingtonEgyptoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09597551318426532162noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11168871.post-48172859779838852512008-08-27T00:14:00.000-04:002008-08-27T00:14:00.000-04:00...That he was not just striking a popular attitud......That he was not just striking a popular attitude as a politician is revealed by the absence of of the usual Christian terms: he did not mention Christ or even use the word "God." Following the phraseology of the philosophical Deism he professed, he referred to "the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men," to "the benign parent of the human race." [James Thomas Flexner, on Washington's first inaugural speech in April 1789, in George Washington and the New Nation [1783-1793], Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970, p. 184.]evtujohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13522301534416753242noreply@blogger.com