Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams

Monticello Oct. 28. 13.

before the establishment of the American states, nothing was known to History but the Man of the old world, crouded within limits either small or overcharged, and steeped in the vices which that situation generates.

RC (MHi). Published in PTJRS, 6:562–8.
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