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7474. REVOLUTION (American), Beginning of.—[continued].

It would * * * be as
difficult to say at what moment the Revolution
began, and what incident set it in motion, as to
fix the moment that the embryo becomes an
animal, or the act which gives him a beginning.—
To John Adams. Washington ed. vii, 104. Ford ed., x, 107.
(M. 1818)