The Jefferson Lies (34 page)

25
. Thomas Jefferson,
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies
, ed.Thomas Jefferson Randolph, vol. 4 (Charlottesville: F. Carr, 1829), 80.

26
. Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Lipscomb, 12:405.

27
. Thomas Jefferson,
The Works of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol. 5 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904), 181.

28
. Ibid., 171.

29
. Ibid., 12:111.

30
. Ibid., 11:168.

31
.
The Works of Francis Bacon
, ed. James Spedding, vol. 3 (London: Spottiswoode & Co., 1857), 509, “Preface to the
De Interpretatione Naturae Prooemium
”; and John Timbs,
Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts
(London: Kent and Co., 1860), 91, “Lord Bacon's ‘New Philosophy.” “Father of the Scientific Method,” Dr. Peter Hammond, “How the Reformation Changed the World,” Frontline Fellowship, accessed November 14, 2011,
http://www.frontline.org.za/articles/howreformation_changedworld.htm
; “Father of Modern Science,” David C. Innes, “The Novelty and Genius of Francis Bacon,” Piety and Humanity, accessed February 11, 2010,
http://pietyandhumanity.blogspot.com/2010/02/novelty-and-genius-of-francis-bacon.html
.

32
. John William Cousin,
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
(New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1910), s.v. “Sir Francis Bacon,” accessed April 27, 2011,
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/bio.php
.

33
. Sir Francis Bacon, “Essays of Francis Bacon: Of Atheism,” Public Domain Books, accessed March 7, 2011,
http://www.authorama.com/essays-of-francis-bacon-17.html
.

34
. Charles E. Hummell, “The Faith Behind the Famous: Isaac Newton,” Christian History, April 1, 1991, accessed October 24, 2011,
http://www.ctlibrary.com/ch/1991/issue30/3038.html
.
See also
Mitch Stokes,
Isaac Newton
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010), 82–84.

35
. “Sir Isaac Newton,” University of St. Andrews, January 2000, accessed October 24, 2011,
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Newton.html
.

36
. Sir Isaac Newton,
Newton's Principia, the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
(1687; repr. New York: Daniel Adee, 1848), 504.

37
. John Locke, “The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, 1669,” in
The Works of John Locke
, vol. 10 (London: T. Davison, 1801), 175.

38
.
See
, John Bowker, ed.,
Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 151; James A. Herrick,
The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists: The Discourse of Skepticism, 1680–1750
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997), 15; Kerry S. Walters,
Rational Infidels: The American Deists
(Durango, CO: Longwood Academic, 1992), 24, 210; Kerry S. Walters,
The American Deists: Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992), 6–7; John W. Yolton,
John Locke and the Way of Ideas
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956), 25, 115.

39
.
See
Richard Watson,
Theological Institutes: Or a View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals, and Institutions of Christianity
(New York: Carlton and Porter, 1857), 32.

40
. John Locke,
The Works of John Locke
, vol. 7 (London: Awnsham & Churchill, 1722), “A Paraphrase and Notes on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians” (originally published in 1705), 25–75; “A Paraphrase and Notes on St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians” (originally published in 1706), 77–202; “A Paraphrase and Notes on St. Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians” (originally published in 1706), 203–270; “A Paraphrase and Notes on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans” (originally published in 1707), 271–427; “A Paraphrase and Notes on St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians” (originally published in 1707), 429–495.

41
. John Locke,
A Common Place-Book to the Holy Bible: or, the Scripture's Sufficiency Practically Demonstrated
(London: Awnsham & Churchill, 1697).

42
. John Locke,
The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures
(London: Awnsham & Churchill, 1695).

43
. John Locke,
A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, from Mr. Edward's Reflections
(London: Awnsham & Churchill, 1695), repr. in
The Works of John Locke
, vol. 6 (London: C. Baldwin, 1824), 159–190.

44
. John Locke,
A Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity
(London: Awnsham & Churchill, 1697), repr. in
The Works of John Locke
, vol. 6 (London: C. Baldwin, 1824), 191–424.

45
. John Adams,
The Works of John Adams
, ed. Charles Francis Adams (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856), 10:311, 4:82–83, 1:53–54; Benjamin Franklin,
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
, ed. William B. Willcox (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), 17:6, 4:107,; Thomas Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Paul Leicester Ford (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895), 5:173, 11:222; Thomas Jefferson,
The Works of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Paul Leicester Ford (New York: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1905), 12:307; Benjamin Rush,
The Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush
, ed. Dagobert D. Runes (New York: The Philosophical Library, Inc., 1947), 78; Benjamin Rush,
Medical Inquiries and Observations,
vol. 1, (Philadelphia: T. & G. Palmer, 1805), 402; Ibid., 2:19; John Quincy Adams,
The Jubilee of the Constitution
(New York: Samuel Colman, 1839), 40–41; James Wilson,
The Works of the Honourable James Wilson
, ed. Bird Wilson, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: Lorenzo Press, 1804), 67–68.

46
. John Locke,
Two Treatises of Government
(London: Awnsham & Churchill, 1689), passim.

47
. Thomas Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol.2 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893), 93–94; emphasis added.

48
. Ibid., 11:115.

49
. Thomas Jefferson,
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 6 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952), 432.

50
. Thomas Jefferson,
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Charles T. Cullen, vol. 23 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), 271.

51
. John Witherspoon,
The Works of John Witherspoon
, vol. 3 (Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1800), 42.

52
. Williston Walker,
John Calvin: The Organiser of Reformed Protestantism: 1509– 1564
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906), 363.

53
. Walker,
John Calvin
, 367.

54
.
Dictionary of American Biography
(New York: Charles Scibner's Sons, 1929), s.v. “Gideon Blackburn.” See also
Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States
(Washington, DC: Gales and Seaton, 1851), 7th Cong., 1602; Dorothy C. Bass, “Gideon Blackburn's Mission to the Cherokees: Christianization and Civilization,”
Journal of Presbyterian History
(Fall 1974), 209–210.

55
. “Thomas Jefferson to the Nuns of the Order of St. Ursula on May 15, 1804,” original on file with the New Orleans Parish, accessed October 24, 2011,
http://dauthazbeechphagein.blogspot.com/2010/08/thomas-jeffersons-letter-to-sister.html
.

56
. Thomas Jefferson, “The Thomas Jefferson Papers,” Library of Congress, accessed October 24, 2011,
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib015028
. This link includes a “transcription” like that has a typed and easy to read version of this letter:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28nc000296%29%29
.

57
. Thomas Jefferson, “The Thomas Jefferson Papers,” Library of Congress, accessed October 24, 2011,
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib015028.

58
.
Records of the Columbia Historical Society
, vol. 1 (Washington, DC: Columbia Historical Society, 1895), 122–123.

59
. Ibid., 127.

60
. Samuel Yorke,
History of the Public Schools of Washington City, D.C
. (Washington, DC: Gill & Witherow, 1876), 1–6; William Benning Webb, John Wooldrige, and Harvey W. Crew,
Centennial History of the City of Washington, D. C
. (Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1892), 484–486.

61
.
Records of the Columbia Historical Society,
vol. 8 (Washington, DC: Columbia Historical Society, 1905), 62.

62
. Samuel Knox,
Essay on the Best System of Liberal Education
(Baltimore: Warner and Hanna, 1799), 78–79.

63
. Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Lipscomb, 19:365–366.

64
. Ibid., 367.

65
. Leonard Levy,
Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side
(Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989), 8.

66
. Thomas Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol. 1 (Washington, DC: Taylor & Maury, 1853), 69–70.

67
. Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Lipscomb, 1:71.

68
. Thomas Jefferson,
The Works of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol. 2 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904), 434.

69
. Jefferson,
Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Lipscomb, 15: 405–406.

70
. Ibid., 19:415.

71
. Thomas Jefferson, “Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia,”
The University of Virginia
, August 4, 1818, accessed October 24, 2011,
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefRock.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1
.

72
. Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Lipscomb, 19:415–416.

73
. Ibid., 449–450; emphasis added.

74
. Thomas Jefferson, “Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia,”
The University of Virginia
, August 4, 1818, accessed October 25, 2011,
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefRock.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1
.

75
. Thomas Jefferson,
The Works of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol. 12 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), 272.

76
. Thomas Jefferson, “Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia,”
The University of Virginia
, August 4, 1818, accessed October 25, 2011,
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefRock.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1
.

77
. Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Lipscomb, 19:414.

78
. Ibid.

79
. William Henry Foote,
Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical
(Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1855), 325.

80
.
See
Jefferson's articles expressing his strong support in his own
Virginia Evangelical and Literary Magazine
, such as that in (January 1818) vol. 1, 548; Philip Alexander Bruce,
History of the University of Virginia, 1819–1919
vol. 1 (New York: The MacMillian Company, 1920), 204;
See also
Robert P. Davis et al.,
Virginia Presbyterians in American Life: Hanover Presbytery 1755–1980
(Richmond: Hanover Presbytery, 1892), 66, 72.

81
. John Holt Rice, ed.,
The Virginia Evangelical and Literary Magazine
, vol. 1 (Richmond: William W. Gray, 1818), 548.

82
. Alexander Garrett, “Outline of Cornerstone Ceremonies,”
The University of Virginia
, October 6, 1817, accessed October 25, 2011,
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Jef1Gri.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=47&division=div1
.

83
. Thomas Jefferson, “Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia,”
The University of Virginia
, August 4, 1818, accessed October 25, 2011,
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefRock.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1
.

84
. Henry S. Randall,
The Life of Thomas Jefferson
, vol. 3 (New York: Derby & Jackson, 1858), 467–468.

85
. Ibid., 467.

86
. Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Lipscomb, 11:413.

87
. Ibid., 19:367.