Excerpt from Jefferson, Cabell and the University of Virginia
Wiser men - the seers of their generation - knew that the influence that was to control was less aris tocratic descent than democratic ascent; that in the era then dawning men would rise, not descend, to the discharge of the high responsibilities of citizen ship, and that enlightenment would be the one cer tain safeguard of the sacred things of liberty.
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