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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 18:10:17 -0500 From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: Re: e$: Snakes of Medusa on Wall Street? (fwd)

At 3:14 pm -0500 on 11/18/97, Jim Choate shows the benefits of being on the top of a CDR address stack :-) :

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Um, I believe that went from the late 1500's to the early 1700's at best.

Nope. Check it out. As defined in any decent book of American history, well, maybe one that hasn't been too "revised" :-), the "Great Awakening", which gave us most of our American-flavored religions, happened in the early part of the 19th century, though rumblings started shortly after the revolution.

I did a little web-search (still being at work and deprived of my library) but what I can find clearly indicates the 'Great Awakening' was fininished by the mid to late 1750's. Most of the sources that I found from Alta Vista give the beginning of the Great Awakening as the late 1600's to early 1700's. While I clearly put the beginning of the movement too early (I always get this confused with the beacon on the hill jive) all the evidence that I can gather shows that it did *not* extend into any part of the 1800's. As I understood the movement it didn't survive the American War of Indipendance. I used Alta Vista and search terms of 'great' & 'awakening'. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|