Thomas Jefferson: Slavery, Education, and the Public Mind

Thomas Jefferson’s autobiography reveals his continual struggle against slavery and his frustration at the resistance of the “public mind” in Virginia, predominantly composed of slave-owning aristocrats. Despite vocal condemnations of slavery, attempts to translate his anti-slavery stance into formal documents faced significant resistance from the society he aimed to change. Even within the House of Burgess, Jefferson\u27s support for a bill allowing individual slave owners to free their slaves was met with contempt. His draft of the Declaration of Independence, condemning the King for slavery, was revised by delegates, impeded by both northern financiers of the slave trade and southern aristocrats unwilling to denounce the institution. Jefferson\u27s boldest anti-slavery proposal, the Report of a Plan of Government for the Western Territory, aimed to ban slavery north and south of the Ohio River but failed by one vote. Recognizing the difficulty of changing the public mind overnight, Jefferson argued for a gradual approach, emphasizing the importance of education. His 1778 Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge aimed not only at education but also at restructuring Virginia\u27s aristocracy into a meritocracy. Jefferson envisioned natural aristocrats, leaders educated in moral principles, guiding the public mind toward embracing emancipation. He believed these leaders should be chosen based on virtue and talents, not wealth or birth, creating an enlightened society capable of bearing the proposition of emancipation. In his retirement, Jefferson looked to the next generation of Virginians as potential champions of emancipation, inspired by his own education at William and Mary. The University of Virginia, founded with the objective to instruct citizens in their rights, interests, and duties, aimed to produce statesmen capable of harmonizing societal interests. However, despite unofficial anti-slavery sentiments within the university\u27s early leadership and professors, the institution\u27s role in forming the natural aristocracy appeared to be compromised, echoing the challenges Jefferson faced throughout his life in trying to influence societal attitudes toward slavery

KVSA VERTAALPRYS / CASA TRANSLATION PRIZE

The CASA translation competition is sponsored annually for the beststudent translation from, or into, either Latin or Classical Greek

More Than Magic Wands: Analyzing Whether Enablement Analysis Of Patent Claims Created Using Artificial Intelligence Should Be Subjected To the In Re Wands Multi-Factor Analysis

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APPLES AND ACORNS: ADDRESSING A PROBLEM IN THEOCRITUS 5.92-95

Theocritus’ Idyll 5 details an amoebaean singing contest betweentwo herdsmen in which the goatherd, Comatas, sings an openingcouplet and the shepherd, Lacon, replies with a second. This paperconsiders one exchange between the competitors which has been thecause of particular frustration to readers of the poem due to anobscure, and likely obscene, pastoral analogy offered by Lacon atlines 94-95. After a consideration of evidence drawn from the text,Theocritean scholia and Greek lyric and elegiac poetry, aninterpretation of the exchange is offered which may provide someclarity to a much-cited problem in Idyll 5

A CLOUDLESS STAR: NOTES ON A LATIN ELEGY BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844–1889)

By profession, Gerard Manley Hopkins was a Classicist. From his novitiate to his death, he taught Greek and Latin at Jesuit schools in England, then at University College Dublin. Remarks in his journals and letters make clear his deep and lifelong engagement with Classics, and the influence of classical literature, particularly the work of Pindar and the Pre-Socratic philosophers, on his English poetry has been observed by numerous critics. Subject to less attention are the poems Hopkins composed in Latin, which include verse composition and translations from English. This article considers one such poem, an original Latin elegy composed in 1867, and explores its language, imagery, literary influences, and possible interpretations

Air modulation apparatus

An air modulation apparatus, such as for use in modulating cooling air to the turbine section of a gas turbine engine is described. The apparatus includes valve means disposed around an annular conduit, such as a nozzle, in the engine cooling air circuit. The valve means, when in a closed position, blocks a portion of the conduit, and thus reduces the amount and increases the velocity of cooling air flowing through the nozzle. The apparatus also includes actuation means, which can operate in response to predetermined engine conditions, for enabling opening and closing of the valve means