The American Enlightenment Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Discourses of Religion, Science, and the Nature of Man
I	The Alliance Between Puritanism and Cartesian Logic at Harvard, 1687-1735	3
II	Immaterialism in Jonathan Edwards' Early Philosophical Notes	27
III	Jonathan Edwards on Rhetorical Authority	47
IV	Cotton Mather, Physico-Theologian	61
V	Irresistible Compassion: An Aspect of Eighteenth-Century Sympathy and Humanitarianism	73
VI	The Idea of the Savage in North American Ethnohistory	97
VII	The American Debate on the Negro's Place in Nature, 1780-1815	103
VIII	Dr. Benjamin Rush and the Negro	116
IX	Lockean Ideas in Thomas Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom	126
X	James Madison and the Nature of Man	133
XI	John Adams on "The Best of All Possible Worlds"	148
XII	Joel Barlow, Enlightened Religionist	165
Pt. 2	Discourses of Politics and Nation
XIII	The Meaning of Colonization in American Revolutionary Thought	183
XIV	The American Revolution and Natural Law Theory	205
XV	Polybius and the American Constitution	217
XVI	Dutch and American Federalism	238
XVII	James Madison and the Scottish Enlightenment	265
XVIII	Jefferson on Liberty	281
XIX	Jeffersonian Revisions of Locke: Education, Property-Rights, and Liberty	295
XX	Benjamin Franklin and the Penal Laws	306
XXI	From Liberalism to Radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of Man	318
XXII	The Young American Nation and the Classical World	337
XXIII	Noah Webster's Linguistic Thought and the Idea of an American National Culture	353
XXIV	Parrington and the Jeffersonian Tradition	369
XV	Between Gog and Magog: The Republican Thesis and the Ideologia Americana	379