 | Paul F. Boller - 2007 - 444 páginas
...palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." Less than two weeks later, on July 4, he was dead. John Adams had died a little earlier that day.24... | |
 | Sandra Menssen, Thomas D. Sullivan - 2007 - 348 páginas
...palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born, with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god.59 No, indeed, the mass of humankind has not been born with saddles. But neither has the mass of... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 páginas
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.28 For Jefferson, reason (the "light of science") working in tandem with a universal moral sense... | |
 | Ronald M. Green - 2007 - 287 páginas
...Jefferson's summation: "The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."6 But what happens if growing genetic differences split the human race into one or more very different... | |
 | Lou Cannon, Carl M. Cannon - 2007 - 336 páginas
...penned, was "that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." Colin Powell, who did know war, cautioned Bush in August 2002 about the perils of invading Iraq and... | |
 | Erik S. Root - 2008 - 268 páginas
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." It also contradicts Algernon Sydney's famous statement similar to Jefferson's: Man therefore must be... | |
 | Marc Karnis Landy, Sidney M. Milkis - 2008 - 41 páginas
..."palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God." Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, just a... | |
 | Steven Waldman - 2008 - 306 páginas
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been bom with saddles on thcir backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of Cod,"" This seems to be a reference both to divine-right-based monarchical tyranny in general and to... | |
 | Howard J. Wiarda - 2007 - 302 páginas
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."17 In other words, although creatures like horses are not born literally "with saddles on their... | |
 | David Tucker - 2008 - 182 páginas
...palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born, with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god."8 Given the role that science was supposed to play in Jefferson's republic, it is a profound irony... | |
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All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted... 
