 | Ben Kiernan - 2007 - 724 páginas
...the State of Virginia, he added that historically, farmers had proved uniquely proper: "Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...which no age nor nation has furnished an example." Jefferson instead considered corruption "the mark" of those "not looking up to heaven, to their own... | |
 | David Tucker - 2008 - 159 páginas
...he keeps alive the sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon...soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the causalities and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience... | |
 | Susan Manning, Francis D. Cogliano - 2008 - 209 páginas
...that 'those who labour in the earth' were 'the chosen people of God'. Jefferson held that 'Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age no nation has furnished an example'. Jefferson thought the least of artisans. He admitted that carpenters,... | |
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... Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. 
