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In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben challenges the long-standing historical myth--first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin--that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. He deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European

Title : A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania
Author : Patrick Erben
Language : en
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