An address at the Bicentennial commemoration of the American Philosophical Society in
Philadelphia
It is a common human practice to answer questions without truly asking them and the American
bicentennial is merely the latest instance. Everyone knows what the Bicentennial celebrates: the
200th anniversary of the adoption, by the Continental Congress, of the Declaration of
Independence. But no one asks what the Bicentennial is because no one asks what the Declaration was. The instrument of announcing American independence from Great Britain? Clearly that: but is that all it was?
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