 | Michael Dunne - 2001 - 236 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Andrei Cherny - 2008 - 290 Seiten
...large cities as pestilence to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man," he wrote at one point. "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government as sores do to the strength of the human body," he wrote at another. Jefferson simply could not see how the free and dignified community life diat... | |
 | Gerald E. Frug - 2001 - 267 Seiten
...peaceably expressed ... by the common reason" of all citizens, he also saw them as objects to be feared: "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body." For Tocqueville, "the strength of free peoples resides in the local community," giving them both the... | |
 | Guy Padula - 2002 - 214 Seiten
...from the face of the earth." His fear of commerce and city life is expressed in the same paragraph: "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body" (Thomas Jefferson, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Adrienne Koch and William... | |
 | Michael A Flannery, Lloyd Library And Museum, Dennis B Worthen - 2001 - 352 Seiten
...family of any size." 2 Democracy, he fervently believed, derived from the countryside, not the city: "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government," he wrote in his Notes on Virginia, "as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners... | |
 | David E. Shi - 2001 - 354 Seiten
...class strife attendant with urbanization. "The mobs of great cities," he claimed, "add just so much support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body."32 But Jefferson's agrarian republic had quickly been displaced by the forces of expansive commercialism... | |
 | William A. Shutkin - 2001 - 300 Seiten
...from a state of preeminence and grace to one of decadence. "The mobs of great cities," he declared, "add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores to the strength of the human body."" Tocqueville explained America's exceptionalism in less graphic... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 Seiten
...barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. Query XIX, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to... | |
 | Donald H. Parkerson - 2002 - 220 Seiten
...Jefferson it was very simple: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God ... while ... the mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...government as sores do to the strength of the human body. ... a degeneracy ... a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.'"3 As early... | |
 | Christine Daniels, Michael V. Kennedy - 2002 - 350 Seiten
...Jefferson's urban vision is not to be found in his famous strictures in query 19 ("Manufactures") — "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body" — but rather in query 3 ("Sea-Ports"). Jefferson left this query blank: "Having no ports but our... | |
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The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. 
