The Threat of German Thought

Strauss talks about the founding, the American founding, the declaration. And then he talks about the threat of German thought,. Before you move on to the German stuff, I want to just elaborate real quick upon it begins with this quote from the declaration. Strauss: Lincoln was recognizing in 1863 that this thing that was held to be self-evidently true in 1776 had come to be doubted in his time.