... . Philosophers were the first to realize what the aristocratic society, the bourgeois, and the bourgeoisie failed to understand. For far too long had European citizens consecutively endured the rule and abuse of absolute monarchs. No soul dared to threaten the authority of king or church as those who did might be tortured or burned at the stake. The foundations of knowledge ... such economic control initiated a full-blown assailment against wealth, peculiarly lead by some of the richest men in America such as Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and George Wa...

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