| Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 Seiten
...VI.12. must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized...to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.2' John Adams was surely right when he remarked that Jefferson "like[d] better the dreams... | |
| Marianne Williamson - 2000 - 292 Seiten
...institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. Today, the rationalism of the European Enlightenment is being repudiated by a more soulful worldview,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - 2000 - 150 Seiten
...institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. These words are carved on a wall at the Jefferson Memorial because they offer advice necessary to any... | |
| Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 Seiten
..."Institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." We can hear, behind these words, the Pauline metaphor: "When I was a child I thought as a child . .... | |
| Roger W. Wilkins - 2002 - 188 Seiten
...institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. I can feel these ideas pulsing beneath the words of the Supreme Court opinion in the landmark case... | |
| Greg Garrett - 2002 - 258 Seiten
...institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. "Isn't that beautiful?" Ray had asked. He was a man who could find beauty in many places: the sun glinting... | |
| Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 Seiten
...institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. To Samuel Kercheval, Monticello, July 12, 1816 Each generation is as independent as the one preceding,... | |
| Gregg David Crane - 2002 - 316 Seiten
...institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized...to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.57 As anticipated by Charles Chauncy, Jefferson allows for intellectual and moral progress... | |
| Gary Hart - 2002 - 305 Seiten
...institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."34 Arguably, the most radically democratic proposal... | |
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