Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell

Monticello Jan. 13. 23.

were it necessary to give up either the Primaries or the University, I would rather abandon the last. because it is safer to have a whole people respectably enlightened, than a few in a high state of science and the many in ignorance. this last is the most dangerous state in which a nation can be. the nations and governments of Europe are so many proofs of it.

RC (ViU).
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