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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 209. Chapters: Thomas Jefferson, Immanuel Kant, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Voltaire, John Locke, Adam Smith, Gottfried Leibniz, Denis Diderot, Baruch Spinoza, Marquis de Condorcet, Thomas Paine, George Berkeley, Friedrich Schiller, Thomas Reid, Adam Weishaupt, Mary Wollstonecraft, Moses Mendelssohn, Hugo Grotius, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Henry Home, Lord Kames, Giambattista Vico, Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, Emanuel Swedenborg, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Eugenio Espejo, Francis Hutcheson, William Ogilvie of Pittensear, Nicolas Malebranche, Johann Gottfried Herder, Bernard Bolzano, John Toland, Baron d'Holbach, Richard Price, Jakob Lorber, Dimitrie Cantemir, Hryhorii Skovoroda, Samuel Clarke, Claude Adrien Helvetius, Christian Wolff, Henry More, Pieter de la Court, Mikhail Shcherbatov, Cesare Beccaria, Dugald Stewart, Petrus Cunaeus, Cornelius de Pauw, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Christian Thomasius, Franciscus van den Enden, George Turnbull, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Hugo Ko taj, Stanis aw Staszic, William Cleghorn, Sylvain Marechal, J drzej niadecki, Antiochus Kantemir, Adriaan Koerbagh, Jacques-Andre Naigeon, Archibald Alison, Johannes van den Driesche, Johann Georg Heinrich Feder, Daniel Raymond, Jan niadecki, D'Holbach's Coterie, Nicolas Antoine Boulanger. Excerpt: Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801-1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). An influential Founding Father, Jefferson envisioned America as a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism. Jefferson served as the wartime Governor of Virginia (1779-1781), barely escaping capture by the British in 1781. Many people were not pleased with his tenure and in the next election he did not win office again in Virginia. From mid-1784 throug...