...business of agriculture. Jefferson's preference for agriculture predated his conflict with Hamilton. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," he wrote in the 1784 Notes on Virginia, "if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made...

...to labor let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench," he wrote on one occasion. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," he wrote on another. For these people, the common people of the country, Jefferson was a champion....

...between people and the land that has been revered since this nation began. Thomas Jefferson proclaimed: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." When Harry S Truman left his family farm in Grandview, Missouri, for Washington, his mother praised...

...ingenuity rather than birth and custom. Jefferson pointed to the yeomanry to fulfill this noble charge: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," he declared in his Notes on the State of Virginia (1785). 1 Years later he told the French economist...

...dépersonnalisation du rapport social par le biais du salaire gagne, peu à peu, en importance. 38. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God [...]. Dependence begets subservience and venality [...]." [Jefferson, 1787, p. 217]. 39. "The earth...

...Lancaster County, 1997. Photograph by the author. founding. From Thomas Jefferson's proclamation that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," to the agrarian republicanism of early proslavery thinkers, to the antebellum Republican hope that...

...organization. In Notes on Virginia, he explicitly attributed virtue to farmers and vice to city-dwellers: Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, . . . whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption...

...yeoman who provided the backbone of American society and democracy. For Jefferson it was very simple: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God ... while ... the mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores...

...people. But we have an immensity of land courting the industry of the The Meaning of Technology Jefferson husbandman. Is it best then that all our citizens...manufactures and handicraft arts for the other? Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he...

..."the immensity of land" in the United States should occupy "all our citizens." Indeed, he declared, "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine...