Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson Mr. Jefi'erson's name is one which causes men to difi'er, and to fall into heated debate. There are those who say that modern America is Jefierson, and those who declare that his political principles have long since been cast into the trash-pile. Some of the wise men say that, of all the fathers, he was the most far-sighted, understood the people the best, and had the correctest idea of the demo cratic-republican theory of government. Other men, equally wise so far as I know, afiirm in the strongest terms that J efierson did not possess enough constructive ability to manufacture a political chicken-coop. Be tween sages so far apart, seekers after the truth will probably find it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.