"State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules." - Thomas Jefferson, 1787https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-12-02-0021 …
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Jefferson's point was anti-intellectual, but not anti-learning; quite the contrary: "The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm....It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body."
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"This sense is submitted indeed in some degree to the guidance of reason; but it is a small stock which is required for this: even a less one than what we call Common sense."
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