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Great Americans of History
THOMAS JEFFERSON - A CHARACTER SKETCH
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
George Bancroft, in glowing words, speaks of this great creation of the
genius of Jefferson:
"This immortal State paper, which for its composer was the aurora of enduring
fame, was 'the genuine effusion of the soul of the country at that time.'
"It was the revelation of its mind, when, in its youth, its enthusiasm, its
sublime confronting of danger, it rose to the highest creative powers of which
man is capable."—Bancroft's U S., vol. 8, ch. 70.
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