 | 1927 - 782 страници
...have so justly abdicated," and was as emphatic as on the day he wrote his ringing "I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." An evolutionist before the days of Darwin, a scientist of note in the scientific world of his day,... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 страници
...of our country," wrote Jefferson, September, 1800, in one of his last letters before the election, " threatens abortion to their hopes, and they believe...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." In all Jefferson's career it is impossible to find a single instance of religious conformity or of... | |
 | Charles Warren - 1927 - 100 страници
...their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy." And these views he re-echoed when, as President, he wrote: "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility,...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." In those words of Jefferson, you hear re-echoed the words of a great Englishman, John Milton, who over... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 страници
...this was more than a formal faith. "I have sworn upon the altar of God," he wrote to a friend in 1800, "eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." The same spirit characterized his theories of education. While a New England college president was... | |
 | 1928 - 858 страници
...Christian nor Deitists. But he insists that the conscience of every man shall be free, and exclaims : " I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." ADORE GOD FIRST To-day as we stand here where Mr. Jefferson lived, near where his ashes repose, in... | |
 | 1900 - 536 страници
...him ; it was a passion ; and he founded the University of Virginia on faith in American manhood. " I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man," he once wrote. In the inscription written by- himself on the monument over his grave in the little... | |
 | Raymond Blaine Fosdick - 1928 - 266 страници
..."nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of their own minds." We need to say with Thomas Jefferson : "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." We need to breed a skepticism of intellectual authority, a distaste for unruffled unanimities, a toleration... | |
 | 1928 - 768 страници
..."nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of their own minds." We need to say with Thomas Jefferson: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility...against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." We need to breed a scepticism of intellectual authority, a distaste for unruffled unanimities, a toleration... | |
 | Walter Lippmann - 1928 - 142 страници
...your passion was for liberty and for learning. JEFFERSON: It was. I had, as I once said to Dr. Rush, sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. SOCRATES : And this I believe is Mr. Bryan, three times the chosen leader of the party which you founded.... | |
 | Benjamin Nathan Cardozo - 1928 - 172 страници
...Our own institutional origins give the angle of departure. "I have sworn upon the altar of the living God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." The words are those of Jefferson, but the spirit was in the air. In that faith was organized what Professor... | |
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. 
