[analphilosopher-announce] New post at AnalPhilosopher

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	There is a new post on AnalPhilosopher.  You can read it at:

http://www.analphilosopher.com/posts/1120530030.shtml

It begins:

	The last letter that Mr. Jefferson ever wrote was
	in acknowledgment of an invitation from the city of
	Washington to take part in a celebration of the
	fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the
	Declaration of Independence. In this, the wisdom
	which comes with death guided him into a singularly
	happy formulation, the clearest and most forceful
	that he ever made, of his lifelong contention
	“that the mass of mankind was not born with
	saddles on their backs, nor a favoured few booted
	and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by
	the grace of God.” Then, almost at once, his
	last...