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Title: Mr Jefferson
Review: Nock sums up Jefferson's character: "A dominant sense of form and order, a commanding instinct for measure, harmony and balance, unfailingly maintained for fourscore years toward the primary facts of human life--towards discipline and training, towards love, parenthood, domesticity, art, science, religion, friendship, business, social and communal relations.""No harm is done if we read his Jefferson as a biography and his Rabelais studies as travel books and compare them with other biographies and studies. But it is harm done to ourselves not to discover in those works an ideal of the complete man and of the moral life. Must we always be moved only by unreadable books in treatise form, which profess to "tell all" with the aid of quotations and references -- that is, others' thoughts pickled in disinfectant scholarship?"Jacques BarzunWho can add to Dr Barzun? Enjoy Albert Jay Nock.
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