...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...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...

...husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. . . . 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 vigour. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats...

...principles." In his preference for a sound agrarian lifestyle over the unhealthy urban air, he wrote: "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body."37 (Though Jefferson probably had London in mind, each square mile in New York and Philadelphia...

...illness of dependence, of corruptibility. Jefferson finishes the point by completing the viral metaphor: "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as do sores to the strength of the human body." What begins to come into view here, in the inflation of...

...conservative of the two when he wrote in Notes on Virginia: "The mobs of great cities add just so much support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body." Federalist Party. Hamilton and Adams founded the Federalist party; Jefferson, the Democratic party...

...subservience and 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...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...

...turn, gives rise to mobs of dissolute individuals who beget political instability. As Jefferson put it: "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a nation which preserve a republic in vigour. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats...

...that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. To Charles Thomson, Monticello, January 9, 1816 The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. Notes on the State of Virginia, 17*2 I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health...

...republican thought. It appeared again in the famous line from Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia: "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body." Urbanization went hand in hand with extremes of wealth and poverty and, because most republican theorists...

...from the nation's long-standing prejudice against urban life. Thomas Jefferson's famous mandate that "the mobs of great cities add just so much to the...government, as sores do to the strength of the human body" still resonated powerfully in a country that celebrated Frederick Jackson Turner's loving tribute to...