Excerpt from The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 of 12 But if the people embody the total Of human thought and experience, as our political theories maintain, there are better reasons than these for his elevation, and for the political influence his name has carried for over one hundred years - better reasons than the leadership of a party, or a fine-spun theory of the respective powers of the state and national governments. The explanation of these ap parent anomalies lies deeper than any mere matter of individuality, party success, or rigid political plat form. To understand why Jefferson became a man of the people, and for what reasons and pur poses they made him their leader, we must study certain forces and tendencies then working in America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.