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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gamesmistress who wrote (685)	4/25/2003 7:01:13 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7830

They did, indeed, work incredibly hard, but they were also very literate (literacy rate in New England was at the amazing rate of 90% at the time of the revolution). Our forefathers read and understood the classics- and were probably much more literate in history than the average man today. I think partly because they had a sense of the historical nature of their undertaking. A reverence for your own history often engenders a general respect for history. That last bit is just my guess- but the literacy rates in NE, and lists of what NE folks were reading, are available.