Word: jeffersonianism
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Romantic Heroes. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were romantics, Jeffersonian idealists, enthusiastic, ardent, poetic, hopeful, trusting. They named the tributaries of the Jefferson River Philosophy, Wisdom and Philanthropy. But their men, the soldiers and hunters in the party, were down-to-earth, matter-of-fact characters. They liked to race ponies with the Indians, carouse with their squaws, dance square dances whenever they made camp...
...fighting for human rights against the police state. We are just as sure to lose if we think that the "human rights" argument is to be used only when strategic interests are at stake. You simply cannot argue that Tito's regime is odious whereas Zervas is a Jeffersonian Democrat...
...there are mitigating factors to this swing. With labor still the force it is, and with labor still predominantly of Democratic registration, the main effort of the Republicans must be to disaffect the Jeffersonian and non-union Democrats. The middle and far west are excellent spawning grounds for this dissatisfaction, with unpopularity of the O.P.A. and the current red scare providing the impetus. The loss of Henry Wallace will produce the same result at the other extreme. Yet the question remains whether the key Democrats in this key area will desert in numbers large enough to allow a clean oppositionist...
...advance his Jeffersonian ideas of equal educational opportunity and what he calls a fluid, classless society, Conant has become a vigorous essayist. It got him into one jam with the Corporation. Conant's "Wanted: American Radicals," in the May 1943 Atlantic Monthly, "urged the need of the American radical not because I wish to give a blanket endorsement to his views, but because I see the necessity of reinvigorating a neglected aspect of our . . . development." Conant said that "the kernel of [this] radical philosophy" would be a "demand to confiscate [by constitutional methods] all property once a generation...
Scientific method is all right, the glory of the West; but the "modern" views of the world constructed on it were flawed by a basic error. Northrop is not alone in finding this error in John Locke, whose 17th Century philosophy contained the premises of Jeffersonian democracy, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The error consisted in the theory that "physical substances" (space, planets, flowers) are definable only in Newtonian terms (extension, mass, volume), thus have no sensuous qualities (depth, heat, fragrance) but are supplied with them by the "mental substance" of the observer...