and commercial interests in the colonies, though just how seriously is perhaps an open question — enough at any rate, beyond doubt, to provoke deep resentment. Over world for the colonists to perceive that independence would not only give freer access to this one mode of the political means, but that it would also openaccess to
a porcine indifference that was a sure runner-up of economic war. “Ever since the accession of the present King of England,” Mr. Jefferson observes to Carmichael in will be capable of consenting to an equal commerce. We have all the world besides open to supply us with gewgaws, and all the world to buy our tobacco. Mr. Jefferson
a choice among an immense number of subjects that are easily taught, and easily accessible to a very low order of mind. “In the realm of morals, I suspect that what it was our literature, our concern with it was proprietary, everything in it was open to us, and the critical judgment, the standards of taste and discrimination that
not mean a quickness of wit, a ready dexterity in handling ideas, or even a ready accessibility to ideas. It implies those, of course, but it does not mean them; and the necessary differentiations. We have all seen men who were quick witted, accessible to ideas and handy with their management of them, whom we should yet sciences, living languages and the useful arts, to make instruction vocational, to open all manner of opportunities for vocational study, and to induce youth into our
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