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Rappahannock News
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• County. Virginia
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Jefferson—Unity
(By Malcolm Moore)
Thomas Jefferson, who was one of fhe most liberal and energetic intellectuals in Virginia's history, sensed the importance of rural communal living, the decadence of which (today) might be called an American tragedy. In letters to his family and friends, Jefferson wrote concerning the advantages ■of a unified community, paralleled with the permanence of the soil. He had been in France for over ten years with the foreign service and had witnessed the continental ways of life; the loyalty, the bourgeois society, and the inevitable when these two classes are present—the poor and destitute. Jefferson saw the poverty stricken exploited by the plunder, ng, ambitious landowners, and the desire for unity became the basis for his doctrines. This, combined with his love of Northern Virginia, caused him to write, in his “Notes on Virginia,’’ concerning the “bounteous goodness” of the soil, the climate and the people of this section.
In T h o m a s Jefferson's era there was a general unity always prevalent, as is usually the case with any new society. Hywever, n the 2(1(1 years that followed, this plausible view has become dimmer and dimmer, po.-sibly because we have doubled our effort and forgotten our aim. The same uountiful land is present, of which, a small piuportion is instilled in everyone living on it or anyone who lias li\ed on it. One c«fn never really escape his native soil. Also, the advantages of our climate and feitile land and the permanence of friendship alias important in today's society as :n Jefferson’s day. The' people of this terrain have a definite heritage that must not he overlooked. The grass., isn't always greener on the other side of the fence. - ____
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