Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes

Monticello Feb. 6. 18.

I am not of the school which teaches us to look back for wisdom to our forefathers. from the wonderful advances in science and the arts which I have lived to see, I am sure we are wiser than our fathers & that our sons will be wiser than we are.

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