...of fire between us and the Old World. He said that in May 1797. And he also said : The mobs of the cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. George Washington, the Father of Our County, ought to be a good witness as to what is traditional in...

...representative government and the clamoring voices of unassimilated hosts demanding Democracy. He said, "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do Co the strength of the human body; it is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic...

...nation Hamilton wanted—urban, industrial, dynamic—but they want to talk like Jefferson, who said, "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government as sores do to the strength of the human body," and "I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, the liberties of man." Jefferson...

...could not be virtuous, independent republican citizens: "Dependance begets subservience and venality"; "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body." Excising these corrupt, disease-prone parts of the body politic, Jefferson defined Virginia in the...

...venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. . . . The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.26 We should read it in large measure as a political jeremiad much like Rousseau's designed to...

...workshops remain in Europe. It is better to carry provisions and materials, and with them their manners and principles. The loss by the transportation of commodities...Atlantic will be made up in happiness and permanence of government.10 An acceptable foreign policy had to incorporate these values. Jefferson paraphrased its...

...hand with vice, and believed that concentrations of people in America would "prostrate agriculture." "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government," Jefferson said, "as sores do to the strength of the human body." Hamilton, however, held that only...

...to workmen there, than bring them to the provisions and materials, and with them their manners and principles. The loss by the transportation of commodities...much to the support of pure government, as sores do the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic...

...Americans recalled Thomas Jefferson's aversion to cities and their impact on the political system: "[T]he mobs of great cities add just so much to the...strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigour. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats...

...virtue," and he establishes the superiority of agrarian life to urban sophistication by adding that "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body" (164-65). A sentiment similar to Jefferson's is expressed in The Pioneers (1823), the first novel of...