8. Albanese, Sons of the Fathers, 46; compare P. Shaw, American Patriots and the Ritu­als of Revolution (Cambridge, Mass., 1981). 9). Craven, Legend of the Founding Fathers, 3.

10. Ibid., 5; see also Colbourn, Lamp of Experience; J. T. Kerens, Providence and Pa­ triotism (Charlottesville, Va., 1978).

11. Craven, Legend of the Founding Fathers, 47-48.

12. Dunn, "Seventeenth-Century English Historians of America," in Seventeenth-Century America, ed. Smith; Craven, Legend of the Founding Fathers, 6-12, 46ff.

13. The self-consciousness of regional history rejected this tendency well into the nine­teenth century.

14. T. Jefferson, "A Summary View," in Papers, ed. J. P. Boyd (Princeton, 1950), I, 121-22, especially on the role of the "Saxon ancestors." See also Bland, Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies, 7.

15. Colbourn, Lamp of Experience; B. Bailyn, ed., Pamphlets of the American Revo­lution (Cambridge, Mass., 1965), I, 52ff. For a general discussion of the Saxon origins of the British constitution, see Pocock, Ancient Constitution; D. C. Douglas, English Scholars, 1660—1730 (London, 1951); S. Kliger, The Goths in England (Cambridge, Mass., 1952.); J. E. C. Hill, "Norman Yoke," in Puritanism and Revolution (New York, 1964).

16. J. Adams, Works, III, 543.

17. Craven, Legend of the Founding Fathers, 57 and passim.

18. Ebenezer Hazard to Thomas Jefferson, August 23, 1774, in Jefferson, Papers, I, 144.

19. Craven, Legend of the Founding Fathers, 60-65; Boorstin, The Americans, II, 368; F. Somkin, Unquiet Eagle: Memory and Desire in the Idea of American Freedom, 1815 to 1860 (New York, 1967), 184-106.

20. Boorstin, The Americans, II, 369-73.

21. G. Bancroft, History of the United States (Boston, 1934-74), III, 4-11; G. Ban­croft, "The Necessity, the Reality, and the Promise of the Progress of the Human Race," in Literary and Historical Miscellanies (New York, 1855). Compare also H. Kohn, American Nationalism (New York, 1957), 2.8-32.; Tuveson, Redeemer Nation, especially 137ff.; Somkin, Unquiet Eagle, 68-80, 184-106.

22. F. Nietzsche, Werke, ed. K. Schlechta (Darmstadt, 1966), I, 220 (English from Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History, trans. A. Collins [New York, 1949], 13).

23. Nietzsche, Werke, 225 (English from Nietzsche, Use and Abuse of History, 17).

24. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "History," in The Complete Works (Boston, 1903 — 1904), I, 8.

25. Everett, Origin and Character of the Old Parties. Compare Peterson, Jefferson Im­age, 86.

26. Boorstin, The Americans, II, 327—37, 482.

27. J. Adams, Works, VII, 281-82.

28. John Adams to Lloyd, April 24, 1815, in J. Adams, Works, X, 164.

29. John Adams to Webb, September 10, 1885, in J. Adams, Works, IX, 541.

30. Quoted in P. Smith, John Adams, II, 1022.

31. D. S. Freeman, George Washington (New York, 1948 —57); VII, 648-653; G.Wills, Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment (Garden City, N.Y., 1984), 23, 31-35.