Friday, December 26, 2008

Jefferson: "the earth belongs to the living" - is this true?

Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Madison concerning France in 1789 argues that "the earth belongs to the living," which puts his own letter in a curious position for us students of history: what claim does it have upon us to read it?

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