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...humane spirit of 18th century enlightenment could be fully realized for the first time anywhere. General Washington called himself "a citizen of the great republic of humanity at large," and countless divines proclaimed Americans to be God's chosen people. "We are acting for all mankind," said Thomas Jefferson. Beneficent fate "imposed on us the duty of proving what is the degree of self-government in which a society may venture to leave its individual members...
...simply to define the special requirements of this age of enormity: to create a public architecture of intimacy, one that brings people together in an experience of confidence and trust. The city beautiful is as valid a concept today as it was when George Washington and Thomas Jefferson established it as an American principle almost two centuries ago. It is not a concept to be traded in for anyone's notion of private gain or social welfare. It is not an efflorescence of elite aestheticism, it is the bone and muscle of democarcy, and I repeat that it is time...
Although their elders may be bored by it, students are not yet tired of the anti-Warren Commission crusade of Attorney Mark Lane. The psychedelic sound of musical groups such as the Jefferson Airplane is welcome, although the cost (up to $8,000 an appearance) is far from popular. Sitarist Ravi Shankar is both a mystical and musical attraction, while LSD Guru Timothy Leary has slipped noticeably. Surprisingly enough, one of the most ubiquitous campus speakers among show business personalities is television's square old M.C., Art Linkletter, who has hit 20 campuses in the past two years, drew...
...colonial Williamsburg, where Thomas Jefferson submitted a visionary plan for common schools that would provide for "more general diffusion of knowledge" in 1779, Lyndon Johnson last week called the persistence of worldwide illiteracy one of "the shocking facts of the 20th century." Eloquently addressing some 150 of the world's most distinguished scholars at an international conference on the world crisis in education, Johnson deplored the fact that man's "awesome talent for destruction" still competes with his "determination to build." He posed, as a key question of the age: "Can we train a young...
...that Canaan, the son of Ham-whose skin was believed to be black-is ac cursed throughout time: "A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." The 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume suspected "Negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites." Several U.S. Presidents, among them Jefferson and Lincoln, shared the same opinion, at least for a while. As long as the two races lived together, said Lincoln in 1858, "there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned...