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Philosophical Pre-Suppositions of the Founding Fathers: Myth and Reality

1 ULIAN BOYD has suggested that the era of the Founding Fathers was to government what the Age of Pericles was to art, the Age of Elizabeth to exploration and discovery.1 On the threshold of the nation's bicentennial, it would be advisable to separate this myth from the reality that is the great experiment that is America. For so much myth surrounds the Founding Fathers that the reality often disturbs the placid conviction that our heroes were unmoved by the base passions and the turbulence characteristic of contemporary life. The word, myth, of course need not be used pejoratively. Mircea Eliade has revealed how pre-scientific mythic visions of reality did at least give the ancient world a cohesive world