The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15

relief these great epochs in it's growth during the first century of it's existence.
 ''The introductory chapter of this ad-
 mirable book is entitled, The Impress of Jefferson," and the author divides this chapter into five heads; CD Father of
 the University @ Political Principles, (S)' Religious Review, (D Love of Sci
 ence and 5) Taste for Architecture.'
 It begins by showing the fine dscrim-
 nation which Jefferson practiced in the
 use of language in writing for his epitaph as one of his chief achievements
 in life, next to being the author of the
 Declaration of independence that he
 was the father (not founder) of the
 University of Virginia He did not en-
 dow it from his private fortune as many
 rich men have done, who are called founders. He was not only the father
 in a spiritual sense but corporeal sense
 also, for he designed the structure in the main from dome to closet and he
 superintended it's erection from the
 earliest to almost the last brick and
 lath. It was he who carried at the
 front of his mind for more than gen
 eration the unrealized conception of
 university for his commonwealth, who
 through this long period pressed it upon
 the attention of the general assembly;
 who, when it was at last incorporated
 in it's earliest form as d college, se- lected it's site and surveyed it's bound-
 aries, and against fearful odds finally obtained from the state the funds needed
 for it's completion; and who, after it's doors were thrown open to students, laid down with precision it's courses of in struction, chose many of it's textbooks, nominated all the professors and drafted all the laws for the administration or the institution, etc. And the author calls attention to the fact that almost daily if the weather was fair, he rode down from his mountan-top home to watch the progress of the building, and when prevented from doing this turned from the lofty heights upon the unfinished structure the far-seeing eyes of his telescope. And the author we'll says,
 There is hardly another instance in our educational history which approaches the noble, the almost pathetic solicitude showed for this child of his. of brick and stone
 Under the second heading, the au- thor says that apart from it's architec- tural setting which was entirely of his decision there were three conspicuous aspects in which the University of vir- ginia reflected the spirit of Jefferson: Q) In it's political creed, (2) in it's free- dom of every form of sectarianism, and tS) in it's complete dedication to the advancement of science He was in ta- vor of that system of government which would hamper the least the natural lib- erty of the individual. This liberty, both | in private relations and in public, was to be as completely without restraints as the working requirements, of organ ized society would permit. He wrote only few days before his death, The | general spread of science has already | laid open to every view the truth that | the mass of mankind have not been | born with saddles on their backs, nor | favored few booted and spurred ready | to ride them ,legitimately by the grace of God,'. .......
 Jefferson was the only statesman of the first order in those times who always and with palpable sincerity expressed 1 the firmest confidence in the virtue and | wisdom of the people at large. So ob- | noxious were his opinions to many of | his fellow countrymen of that day that | he was roundly and widely described as a demagogue, jacobin, an atheist and | an anarchist. Yet, what were the funda- mental principles that he promulgated? First, that all men should stand upon exactly the same platform of equal priv ileges and equal opportunity before the law; secondly, that every nation, great or small, should possess the right to aG- minister it's own affairs free from al! compulsiop, or interference | from other nations. Such in bare out. | lines, were the political principles of Jef- !