...wrote that the Declaration had encouraged "the spread of the light of science" and was still "arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government." Jefferson thus djed championing the causes of liberty and Enlightenment for which he had lived, trusting...

...wrote, he expressed his lifelong belief that the American Revolution would be "the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...the blessings and security of self-government."'" In Yet these expressions of confidence in the future progress of the Enlightenment were fewer and farther...

...Reasserting the significance of the American experiment, may it be to the world a signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and securities of self-government. All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The general mass...

...was the signal to the world, to some parts sooner, to some parts later, but finally to all, to arouse "men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...the blessings and security of self-government." The people were held down by the superstitions they believed — that kings ruled by divine prerogative...

...believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government ... all eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science...

...believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government . " And after Jefferson and John Adams died on the Fourth of July 1826, Madison recalled the Revolutionary...

...some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all)," wrote Jefferson, "the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings of security and self-government."86 To his wife, Adams prophesied that the day of the signing would...

...but also a religious vigil. Jefferson saw the Declaration as a signal to all the world "of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves." He did not restrict "monkish ignorance and superstition" to the Middle Ages or the Roman Catholic Church...

...characterization of the Declaration of Independence, in the last letter he wrote, as "the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government."21 The problem with reconciling his insistence on the separation of church and state...

...believe it will be to some pans sooner, to others later, but fmally to all, the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance...assume the blessings and security of self-government. . . .All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science...