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Show 76 if man were these man pf8perly by nature trained his reoetions wou,d be pd, plus th. id(to that in pd, properly trained, for all. 113 stability and to tile good life in the Meking of G He speech. compllmeftt. He eonsJd.,ed it. On.ce Thomas gave and safes·t WCJy to em account of himlelf eomploined thot his friends charged that he could ftOt good himself .d rests the S\Jr'eH <I see that man w. him with being bad. He did not consider tMs backhaneied sw_p but &(d<l he preferred it to stroight left, which would be harde, to dodge.. Q He reiterated that he stiIJ did not believe nthat the nature of man is bod. n4 Tied in closely with his notion that by nuture, and therefore origin man w. ally, good is the concept of the tfworth of the individual In son's great principl., for natioN thot struct\l'e; h. is 3 we the aecen..t demand in being men.uS an Congressional Record, Vol. 89, . ---. insistence upon the same 0". of Jeffer- l'ilO'rlJl codes The individual then i$ the b.e of the social unit o·f the whole and not a seciety, p , Q f,_.tion of the whole.6 A2015 (78th Congr.$,lst On ene $en., April 16, 1943J. 4 S Ibid. Vol. 83, p. A275, Thom Jefferson and (7Sth Congr.. , 3d seas., AU-erieQf\ Unity,. Inter-American Affairs, Press Division, (MarchI January 29, 1938). Office of the Coordinator of 1943). 6 Thoma$ made this point in one of his clQ$$room lectures. The idea of the froction is derived from the Greeks and hmanl. lhom. seld primitive man WQ$ always that, ito fraction of the whole.n The idea of a unit is modem. "In this man, upon whomt'he Creamr hod bestowed the desire for penc)AQI and inte:llectual liberty and (2 sense of socia. right ond wrong, tie saw the foundations upon which might be built G great democratic institution, created for the happiness of each indivlduol of which it i$ composed. Thomas Jefferson: World Cltizen,. cit. p.35. 0 |
