...a distinctively modern twist to the old theme of the sturdy yeoman farmer. According to Jefferson, Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption...

...one half should be called off from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft arts for the other? a question on any other point, except for adjourning from day to day be determined, unless whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus...

...the few lines from Notes on the State of Virginia that earned him the title of agrarian philosopher: "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus...

...Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Easier, ed. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 1:112. labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Most of all, farmers...

...farmers bounty and their own dishonest wits. "Those who labor in the earth," wrote Jefferson in 1785, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." Corruption has never been associated with "cultivators," he asserts. Then, using another biblical allusion,...

...deism leads him to wax rhapsodic on this latter point. "Those who labour in the earth," he maintains, "are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue."62 In Letters from...

...To Jefferson, as everyone knows, there was something saintly about the self-sufficient husbandman: "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts he had made the peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine...

...own land, sending his surplus production to market.45 For example, he wrote in his Notes on Virginia: "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age nor nation has...

...one's Virginia home meant more than emotional security. Above all, Virginia meant a life on the soil. "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God," Jefferson had memorably written in his Notes on the State of Virginia. The only truly virtuous, free,...

...for instance, linked the virtues necessary for a robust republic to the life of the yeoman farmer. 15. To prevail upon governments to establish a purely nationa he wrote, while ascribing to manufacturing the characteristics of venality, subservience, dependence,...