AMS 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deism
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The common man, the ordinary person, radical democratic politics in philadelphia, There was a fluidity to professions at that time. Always did things with his hands, was a jack of all trades, but was never awesome at. He used portrait painting to climb up the social ladder. Became a militia captain during the revolution. He was a deist: god reveals himself through nature. Used his museum as a work of god"s revelation to us a microcosm of god"s nature, sort. Peale as a typical life span from colonial period, through revolution, into the beginnning. Representative man of enlightement: god coming from natrual world. A need to reptresent that for city folks so they can be uplifted by nature (the museum) Even an importatn person at that time, lived a regular life. the differences between the.
