No Borders Quotes
At the time sectionalism was extensive in America. Most Iowa and Northern families still remembered a relative who had been “killed by the rebels” in the Civil War. The South still resented the rest of the country. The East and Midwest had much better educated than the rest of the country. Most important, there was very little contact between Americans of different sections. Until the great Eisenhower initiative of a National Highway System sectionalism was common. Presidents were constantly trying to develop a national American spirit.
Such views often make zealous patriots suspicious of the loyalty of scientists.
Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots. He wrote of the French Revolution as the first step that would trigger a world-wide revolution producing a “Universal Republic” which would be a political paradise. He was very active helping the revolutionists in the French Revolution. He have them money and used his writing and political skills to assist in many ways. Ironically, he got caught up in the paranoid insanity into which the French Revolution evolved, and he was accused by Maximilien Robespierre and guillotined at the age of 39.
