Posted on 05/26/2024 6:48:17 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
In life, sometimes things just drop into your lap. This is one of those times. Today I am very happy to announce the full release of Major General Ethan Allen's work A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity
What is cool about this is that it is a solo work, meaning it is IMHO higher quality and easier to follow. Moreover, most of my personal efforts to try to recruit others have admittedly been a failure. But this one, it was just some random person who I don't have any association with saw it and recorded it. From my view, its completely random. But it still has all the great value nonetheless.
I don't know how many of you have ever been to Ethan Allen's home in Burlington Vermont, but there could be (I hope) some day where enough of these audiobooks have been produced that non-profit entities such as Allen's home realize these books exist and start to use and promote them to whatever effect or capacity that they can be. It's clearly a useful resource.
In any case, if you love American history as I do, here is now an audio book version of a book you probably didn't realize you needed to go through that now you can conveniently listen to at any number of times in your day.
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Going to download it right now! Thanks!
By the way-I have begun reading again...bronchitis lasted nearly two months with me. I still have it, but can work through it!
Good morning! I’m glad you are feeling much better, over here we all had strep recently because of daycare with the little ones. It’s never fun when being under the weather.
Thanks. Ethan Allen was definitely an interesting character. I’ll have to give it a listen.
I jumped over to the wiki piece on him and this amused me considering our current controversies:
“He was also called to court in Salisbury for inoculating himself against smallpox, a procedure that required the sanction of the town selectmen”
I knew that like Tom Paine he was an 18th Century atheist and not shy about advertising it. Allen was descended from Puritans, a heritage shared by the Transcendentalists of Boston. They were the woke Hollywood elite of their era.
“In these years, Allen recovered from Thomas Young’s widow, who was living in Albany, the manuscript that he and Young had worked on in his youth and began to develop it into the work that was published in 1785 as Reason: the Only Oracle of Man. The work was a typical Allen polemic, but its target was religious, not political. Specifically targeted against Christianity, it was an unbridled attack against the Bible, established churches, and the powers of the priesthood. As a replacement for organized religion, he espoused a mixture of deism, Spinoza’s naturalist views, and precursors of Transcendentalism, with man acting as a free agent within the natural world. While historians disagree over the exact authorship of the work, the writing contains clear indications of Allen’s style.”
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