27 November 2008

A good world on the whole



After this afternoon's feast, my family and I watched the Ken Burns production, Thomas Jefferson. Toward the conclusion of the movie, there was a discussion about correspondence between Jefferson and his long-time adversary and friend, John Adams. Jefferson's philosophy of life and how to live it, was described with astounding simplicity in his letter to Adams of April 8, 1816.

Read it here.

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