Word: jeffersonism
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...Schickel can complain about the dialogue. The most monstrous dialogue is the American vernacular of Washington, Jefferson, and those we call the founding fathers, living off the labor of slaves while debating the God-given liberty of mankind...
People in rural areas were afraid that even though Carter will be the first farmer in the White House since Thomas Jefferson, a peanut grower may not understand corn-belt problems. Because of unseasonably dry and cold weather this winter, the Midwest may end up at harvest time with unusually low yields in such high-income crops as corn and soybeans...
...Jefferson Ulmer West Point...
...Letters, the worldwide community of men who read one another's books and exchanged opinions. Long after Gutenberg's printing press had begun the process of multiplying books and encouraging the growth of literature in the languages of the marketplace, the community remained a limited one. Thomas Jefferson, for example, considered himself a citizen of that worldwide community because of what he shared with literary and scientific colleagues in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands and elsewhere. When Jefferson offered the young nation his personal library (which was to be the foundation of the Library of Congress...
...shipboard, in our automobile or an airplane, we are protected from the climate, the soil, the sand, the snow, the water. Our roots, such as they are, grow in an antiseptic hydroponic solution. Instead of enjoying the weather given us "by Nature and by Nature's God" (in Jefferson's phrase), we worry about the humidifier and the air conditioner...