By M.L. Burstein
Supplies large fabric making it attainable for the reader to appreciate how Thomas Jefferson's brain spanned the colossal distance setting apart antiquity from writers like William James and Sigmund Freud, examining his experiences in economics, ethical philosophy, background and law.
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Jefferson delighted in all this, reserving only his study-suite sanctum. ) o Nock's Jefferson is a character in Chekov's Cherry Orchard. He does not explain how Jefferson could have attracted such devotion. Nor does he capture his fire - and ruthlessness. 2. See his letter to William Short (Ch. 8); or his famous tree of liberty, watered by the blood of patriots. 3. Jefferson thought slavery evil and forecast that white America would pay a terrible price for it. But he seems more concerned about the danger of slave insurrection than attracted by opportunities for emancipation.
David Hume & Whig Mythology. David Hume is the book's principal philosopher. He solves an intricate puzzle that Thomas Jefferson never could assemble. He signals a practical system of liberty; but his solution requires that Whig icons be smashed. Not only was Jefferson unprepared to perform such a ritual: he pilloried Hume (qua Tory historian) much as the Congregation of Amsterdam flayed Spinoza. Ironically; Jefferson, in retirement, came close to Hume's solution - finding his sources in the work of the French ideologues; and he skirted utilitarianism, without lapsing into the Benthamite banality (d.
His 33 Introduction bold effort in 1784 to bar slavery in the territories came to naught: why should the aged eagle stretch its wings? 4. That the American Revolution was spared Bonapartism owes more to George Washington than to Thomas Jefferson - or anyone else. Perhaps Washington could have become First Consul, if not king - speculations roundly scouted by the Adamses. See Chateaubriand's Memoires. His report of his interview with President Washington crystallizes early American political manners - and may explain why Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were so queasy about Alexander Hamilton.