Rhetorical Gestures (was Re: Spivak sez...)

[michael at ecst.csuchico.edu]

Jefferson was writing to Benjamin Rush, a Philadelphia doctor, who was a
true hero in risking his life during a plague in the city.
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> Charles Brown wrote:
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> >What I mean is that Kant was no more progressive than Franklin and Jefferson.
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> Jefferson? Whose vision of paradise was one of yeoman farmers and 
> slaveowning gentry? And who wrote these lovely words: "Providence has 
> in fact so established the order of things that most evils are the 
> means of producing some good. The yellow fever will discourage the 
> growth of great cities in our nation; & I view great cities as 
> pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. 
> True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can 
> thrive elsewhere, and less perfection in others, with more health, 
> virtue, and freedom would be my choice." That Jefferson?
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> Doug
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> 

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