1774 – Hamilton’s sunbeam

The following is from Hamiton’s 1774 pamphlet “The Farmer Refuted” – his first piece of Revolutionary writing. The most famous lines from that pamphlet are:

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments … They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of Divinity itself.

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