 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
 | Marjorie Kelly - 2001 - 290 pages
...3. Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams, Oct. 28, 18 1 3, wrote: " For I agree with you that 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 birth, without either virtue... | |
 | Aurelian Crăiuțu - 2003 - 364 pages
...also see Constant 1988, 221, 261-64. 27. The whole passage is worth quoting: "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... | |
 | Steven Pinker - 2003 - 532 pages
...biological sameness. For example, in an 1813 letter to John Adams he wrote: "I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents For experience proves, that the moral and physical qualities of man, whether good or evil,... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 pages
...recognition of a "natural aristocracy of virtue and talent" to which he assigned a privileged political role. + p + talents. . . . The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction,... | |
 | 2004 - 502 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. . . . The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient."... | |
 | Patriot Hall - 2004 - 346 pages
...aristoi produced by the fortuitous [Volume 1, Page 569] 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... | |
 | Beverly Merrill Kelley - 2004 - 350 pages
...refined the traditional elitist argument in an 1813 exchange with John Adams: "I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. . . . [T]he grounds of this are virtue and talents. That form of government is best that prevents the ascendancy of artificial aristocrats and... | |
 | John Adams - 2004 - 580 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... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - 444 pages
...democracy can be compatible with human excellence and good government. . . . 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... | |
 | 2004 - 516 pages
...impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. — -Joseph Addison I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. — Tlromas Jefferson 451 Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness... | |
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