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Notes on the State of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1785
- Pages
- Pages 300
A French diplomat sent a questionnaire to Virginia's governor, and Jefferson answered it with an entire country: rivers measured by the navigable mile, the Natural Bridge he owned but could not look down from without a violent headache, a moose shipped to Paris to prove to Buffon that nothing on this continent had degenerated into smallness. For query after query it is the loveliest kind of catalogue, a mind weighing everything within its reach.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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