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  • Thomas Moore Johnson on Platonism in American Life, and the Limits of Politicians

    Thomas Moore Johnson on Platonism in American Life, and the Limits of Politicians

    Thomas Moore Johnson, a key player in early developments of American esotericism on political quarrels, speaking the truth and the necessity for the Platonic Philosophy from introduction to The Platonist: An Exponent of the Philosophic Truth, Vol. I, No. I, St. Louis, Feb. 1881, pp 1-3: One of the gentlemen to whom was sent a…