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Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIX: Manufactures (1853 edition)

Thomas Jefferson · c. 1781–1787

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  1. Our reading

    Those who farm the land are God's chosen people, if he ever had one

    Their wordsThose who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

  2. Our reading

    While land remains, Americans should leave general manufacturing to Europe

    Their wordsWhile we have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work bench, or twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in husbandry; but, for the general operations of manufacture, let our work shops remain in Europe.

  3. Our reading

    The mobs of great cities weaken pure government as sores weaken the body

    Their wordsThe mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

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