...released from' his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science,...times in which I have lived, have forced me to take part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions. I thank...

...released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science,...the most consoling proofs of public approbation." He traveled home mostly on horseback, and in spite of encountering a severe eight-hour snow storm,...

...latterly Theodore Roosevelt. Of both these men the words by Jefferson, so often quoted, were true. "Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight." That Jefferson received more blame than praise for his scientific work and that he is known in history...

...abandoned as impracticable." It was not wholly affectation, therefore, when Jefferson wrote, "Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science,...myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions." One can readily picture this Virginia farmer-philosopher ruefully closing his study door, taking a...

...abandoned as impracticable." It was not wholly affectation, therefore, when Jefferson wrote, "Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science,...myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions." One can readily picture this Virginia farmer-philosopher ruefully closing his study door, taking a...

...abandoned as impracticable." It was not wholly affectation, therefore, when Jefferson wrote, "Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science,...myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions." One can readily picture this Virginia farmer-philosopher ruefully closing his study door, taking a...

...irresistible." He often refers to his fondness for science. To M. Dupont de Nemours he wrote: "Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight" ; to Harry Innes, science "is my passion," politics "my duty"; and to Dr. Benjamin Rush he declared...

...released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science,...myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions." In the interval of these letters he filled with honor, success and public applause, every office of...

...personal happiness, in that as in every other respect. He himself offered an example of that. "Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science,...myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions." To keep the passions in balance and under control and to secure tranquillity of the mind was the goal...

...last, Lewis and Clark gave it the attention a cleric gives Holy Writ. "Nature," Jefferson once said, "intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight."1 These pursuits of which he spoke embraced all natural objects and agencies from 1 Edwin...