 But since the invention of gunpowder has armed the weak as well as the strong with missile death, bodily strength, like beauty, good humor, politeness and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground of distinction.  Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine - Page 28edited by - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Hans Vorländer - 1997 - 256 pages
...Regierungsgeschäfte für befähigter, wie er in einem Briefwechsel mit John Adams breit ausführte: »The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society« (1986, 534). Allerdings, und dies unterscheidet seine politische... | |
 | Howard Zinn - 1997 - 676 pages
...Carter. Back in 1976, John Silber wrote on the op-ed page of the New York Times: As Jefferson recognized, there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent... Democracy freed from a counterfeit and ultimately destructive egalitarianism provides a society in... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...librettist. Duke of Plaza-Toro, in The Gondoliers, act 1 (1889), published in The Savoy Operas (1926). 8 There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. THOMAS JEFFERSON, (1743-1826) US president. The Writings of Thomas lefferson, vol. 9, ed.... | |
 | Anita L. Allen, Milton C. Regan - 1998 - 410 pages
...few of whom Jefferson later speaks, in a famous letter to John Adams, as "the natural aristocracy": "the natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature, for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society May we not even say that that form of government is the best... | |
 | Paul Heywood Hirst, Patricia White - 1998 - 470 pages
...some of our greatest democrats have embraced this view. Thomas Jellerson once wrote to John Adams: there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. . . . May we not even say, that that form of government is best, which provides the most effectively... | |
 | Garry J. Moes - 1998 - 340 pages
...strongest argument last. Examine how he argues for a natural aristocracy: d .EXAMPLE: I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the [aristocracy]. But since the invention of gunpowder... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 1999 - 516 pages
...wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society." That form of government is best, Jefferson continued, that... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 1999 - 212 pages
...pseudo-aristocracy with natural aristocracy. Jefferson, in an oft-quoted letter to John Adams, remarked that the natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 pages
...the accidental aristoi produced by the fortuitous concourse of breeders. For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2000 - 522 pages
...too vital to permit 6tat« discrimination on grounds as tenuous an thnae presented hy this record." m "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. . . . There is, also, an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and hirth without either... | |
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