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Jonathan Edwards fell out of favor with Yale’s president Clapp, who opposed George Whitefield’s Christian revivals as being too “enthusiasti...

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When I took calculus in my first college-degree program, the graduate-student instructor didn’t bother to tell the class that a derivative s...