...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth." About whom was Jefferson writing? What kind of agriculture and where? Jefferson...

...a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. isal in time of peace, nor enter into any treaties or alliances, nor coin money, nor regulate t face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age...

...virtue." These yeomen breasts were God's repository of the last, best hope of earthly salvation. In them, "he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth."145 Righteous soil-diggers were carriers of the Holy Ghost, mediators between man...

...virtue' and that 'those who labour in the earth' were 'the chosen people of God'. Jefferson held that 'Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age no nation has furnished an example'. Jefferson thought the least of artisans. He admitted that carpenters,...