Free government?
ISN'T IT IONIC THAT "FREE" MEANS NOT BOUGHT?
I hope to see shortly a perfect consolidation, to effect which, nothing shall be spared on my part; short of the abandonment of the principles of our revolution. A just and solid republican government maintained here, will be a standing monument and example for the aim and imitation of the people of other countries; and I join with you in the hope and belief that they will see, from our example, that a free government is of all others the most energetic ; that the inquiry which has been excited among the mass of mankind by our revolution and its consequences, will ameliorate the condition of man over a great portion of the globe. What. a satisfaction have we in the contemplation of the benevolent effects of our efforts, compared with those of the leaders on the other side, who have discountenanced all advances in science as dangerous innovations, have endeavored to render philosophy and republicanism terms of reproach, to persuade us that man cannot be governed but by the rod, etc.
– Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Dickinson, Washington, March 6, 1801; ME 10:217-21
I hope to see shortly a perfect consolidation, to effect which, nothing shall be spared on my part; short of the abandonment of the principles of our revolution. A just and solid republican government maintained here, will be a standing monument and example for the aim and imitation of the people of other countries; and I join with you in the hope and belief that they will see, from our example, that a free government is of all others the most energetic ; that the inquiry which has been excited among the mass of mankind by our revolution and its consequences, will ameliorate the condition of man over a great portion of the globe. What. a satisfaction have we in the contemplation of the benevolent effects of our efforts, compared with those of the leaders on the other side, who have discountenanced all advances in science as dangerous innovations, have endeavored to render philosophy and republicanism terms of reproach, to persuade us that man cannot be governed but by the rod, etc.
– Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Dickinson, Washington, March 6, 1801; ME 10:217-21
posted by brad4d | 8:02 AM
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don't overlook the importance of "BUT" in the last line...
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