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SCI LIBRARY

The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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Now it is what thirty-four years of free and good government have made it. It shows how soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object -- the happiness of man, -- to the selfish interests of kings, nobles, and priests.

to Ellen W. Coolidge, 27 August 1825