Extract from Thomas Jefferson to J. Evelyn Denison

Monticello Nov. 9. 25.

literature is not yet a distinct profession with us. now and then a strong mind arises, and at it’s intervals of leisure from business, emits a flash of light. but the first object of young societies is bread and covering; science is but secondary and subsequent.

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