Abstract
Like his fellow revolutionaries, Governor James Bowdoin II (1726–90) struggled to reconcile a cyclical view of history with the need to establish a stable republic. Drawing inspiration from the closed, self-renewing systems of Newtonian mechanics and Vergilian poetics, he constructed a philosophical solution more elegant than it was pragmatic.
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