William Brooks: From Western Traditions to Political Indoctrination: A Cultural History of Education

Part 2: A deist schism in the Age of Reason

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, in an engraving by A.B. Hall. Jefferson was a deist who sought the disestablishment of Christianity and a separation of church and state that would prepare the way for the dissimulation of the Western Christian worldview. Kean Collection/Getty Images

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Part 1 of this series can be read here.