| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 678 pages
...lucrative perquisites. This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever...error so long as reason is left free to combat it. We are looking with wonder at what is passing among you. It " Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 676 pages
...lucrative perquisites. This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever...error so long as reason is left free to combat it. We are looking with wonder at what is passing among you. It " Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
| John Cleaves Henderson - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 408 pages
...university, he added : " This institution will be based on the illimitv able freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever...error, so long as reason is left free to combat it." Years after Jefferson had been laid in his grave, one of the English professors, Dr. Robley Dunglison,... | |
| Universities and colleges - 1917 - 428 pages
...institution (the University of Virginia) will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever...error so long as reason is left free to combat it. Jefferson to Dr. Thomas Cooper: Monticello, 1820. I contemplate the University of Virginia as the future... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Political science - 1900 - 1504 pages
...CF VOLNEY. iv, 572. (W., 1805.) 2748. EBBOB, Toleration of. — Here, [the University of Virginia] we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may...error so long as reason is left free to combat it. — To MR. ROSCOE. vii, 196. (M.. 1820.1 2749. EBBOB, Triumphant. — Error has often prevailed by... | |
| Education - 1903 - 290 pages
...and again he wrote: " This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever...error so long as reason is left free to combat it." Freedom to investigate and freedom to study, liberty for professors and students alike, with the system... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903
...lucrative perquisites. This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor tp tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. We are looking with wonder at what... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1904 - 550 pages
...will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow tmth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. We are looking with wonder at what is passing among you. It "Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 1044 pages
...lucrative perquisites. This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever...error so long as reason is left free to combat it. We are looking with wonder at what is passing among you. It "Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
| John Sharp Williams - History - 1913 - 352 pages
...will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error, so long as reason is left free to combat it." His professors went through the experience, that every man and woman did, who were brought into close... | |
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