caa a22 4500 388089628 CHVBK 20180307125244.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3170109 doi S0009640700071043 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3170109 Moore R. Laurence is Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University What Children Did Not Learn in School: The Intellectual Quickening of Young Americans in the Nineteenth Century [Elektronische Daten] [R. Laurence Moore] Thomas Jefferson belonged to a generation of common-sense rationalists who hoped that religious tolerance in the United States would put an end to religious quarreling. Once freed to practice religion as they pleased, adult citizens, Jefferson thought, would recognize the moral advantages of nondogmatic creeds and treat religion as a philosophical inquiry based not on Scripture but on what was selfevidently true. Religion, a subject for mature minds who could weigh evidence, was not for infants. Young children, he said, were "at an age when their judgments are not sufficiently matured for religious enquiries.” Children had to learn to think about religion gradually and to study it with a questioning mind only after they had attained adulthood. Copyright © American Society of Church History 1999 Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 68/1(1999-03), 42-61 0009-6407 68:1<42 1999 68 CHH https://doi.org/10.2307/3170109 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3170109 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Moore R. Laurence is Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 68/1(1999-03), 42-61 0009-6407 68:1<42 1999 68 CHH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge