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When he was 17, Jefferson entered college at William and Mary in Williamsburg, capital of the colony. his principal teacher, a Scot named William Small, imparted to the youth his own searching cast of mind as well as a thorough grounding in natural philosophy and mathematics. The invaluable Small also introduced his student to two other figures whose influence still marks him: Francis Fauquier, a humane, generous, formidably literate man who was then Virginia's acting Royal Governor, and George Wythe, a Williamsburg lawyer and an expert classicist. The four often dined together at the Governor's Palace and enjoyed...
...just been issued. But there has been angry criticism of what Gibbon calls a "tedious but important" matter: his treatment of religion. Gibbon himself became a convert to Roman Catholicism while at Oxford, and he returned to Protestantism only at the insistence of his wealthy father. By now a thorough skeptic, he speaks of the early Christians with amused contempt. Their martyrdoms were far fewer than religious enthusiasts now claim, he says. And he maliciously derides the church's "uninterrupted succession of miraculous powers, of healing the sick and raising the dead." Gibbon sees little if any progress when...
Dartmouth College was similarly embroiled last winter when its president, the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, was charged with speaking disrespectfully of the Congress and Colonies. After a thorough investigation, however, the Hanover and Lebanon Committees of Safety not only cleared Wheelock of the charges but praised him for his efforts to convert the neighboring Indians to the cause of the Colonies...
Still, current readers of the Times were startled two weeks ago to find on the front page a report that the Academy of Applied Science/New York Times Loch Ness Expedition was ready to. depart for Drumnadrochit, Scotland, which would be headquarters for "the most thorough and technologically sophisticated" hunt ever conducted for whatever it is that lurks in the loch...
Such performances have turned Enrico Berlinguer into Italy's new political star (and according to one survey, also its most sexy, in the view of Italian women). Yet, like his party, the slight. shy, introspective Berlinguer is riddled with typically European paradoxes. He is a thorough Marxist theoretician who has devoted his life to the party since he was a teenager. Yet this leader of the proletariat is customarily addressed by fellow Sardinians on vacation trips home as "Don Enrico" because of the family's prestige. As a Communist and atheist, Berlinguer ought to be a rigorous enemy...