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4714. LIBERTY, Science and virtue.—[continued].

The general spread of the
light of science has already laid open to every
view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind
has not been born with saddles on their
backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred,
ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace
of God.—
To Roger C. Weightman. Washington ed. vii, 451. Ford ed., x, 391.
(M. 1826)