Jefferson Elementary

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    The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature’s elementary materials.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)