Jonathan Edwards "Learning as a child is like writing in stone. Learning when you are old is as if you were writing in sand." A fitting quote for Jonathan Edwards, a man who helped define the New World through theology and philosophy when the struggling New England colonies were still in their infancy. Through his strong vision he believed the people could not return to the past nor be satisfied with the present and for …
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…to a case of small pox leaving behind his wife, eleven children, and a legacy. That driven quality a person gets when they know they're capable of something is felt then the same as it is now and as one of the first to embody that American attitude and realize things would never be as they were before, his efforts, even seeing the state of our religion today, have made an imprint on our culture.