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“Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.”

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Alfred Whitney Griswold

Alfred Whitney Griswold was an influential American historian, born on October 27, 1906, and died on April 19, 1963. He made significant contributions to the field of American history, particularly in the study of the U.S. Constitution and early political history. more

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