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

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Mon Oct 18 16:54:54 PDT 1999


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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