 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - 2001 - 382 Seiten
...mind matures: "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...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 . .... | |
 | Greg Garrett - 2002 - 258 Seiten
...circumstances, 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...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
...circumstances, 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...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
...circumstances, 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...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
...circumstances, 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2003 - 276 Seiten
...circumstances, 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...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. January 6,1821 From Jefferson's Autobiography. (MCMIV, 290-1) Reason, justice and equity never had... | |
 | Dennis C. Mueller - 2003 - 796 Seiten
...circumstances, 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...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. Thomas Jefferson Rules for collective decision are needed, quite simply, because people live together.... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2003 - 290 Seiten
...circumstances, 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...to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.294 Despite his bold expressions of faith in the future, in the 18105 and 18205 he disagreed... | |
 | William Quigley - 2008 - 254 Seiten
...hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man to still wear the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. — Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Samuel Kercheval, 1816 AMERICA VALUES work. We value self-sufficiency.... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 Seiten
...circumstances, 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...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. Despite his bold expressions of faith in the future, in the 1810s and 1820s he disagreed more and more... | |
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We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. 
