Yes, of course; the eminent Mr. Adams was merely expressing regional  
prejudice.

For Virginian and Southern intellectual life in the antebellum era,  
see, for example:

Richard Beale Davis, Intellectual life in the Colonial South,  
1585-1763 (1978);   and   Intellectual life in Jefferson's Virginia,  
1790-1830 (1964).
Michael O'Brien, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the  
American South, 1810-1860 (2004).

For Henry Adams's own complicated personal relationship to the South  
and Southernness, see the opening portions of Garry Wills, Henry  
Adams and the Making of America (2005).

--Jurretta Heckscher

On Dec 15, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Holly Mills wrote:

> In a message dated 2007/12/15 8:13:01 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>> Adams wrote, "Strictly, the Southerner had no mind; he had  
>> temperament. He
>> was not a scholar; he had no intellectual training; he could not  
>> analyze an
>> idea, and he could not even conceive of admitting two" (quoted in  
>> Bledstein,
>> 29).
>>
>
> Just can't resist--wasn't Jefferson from the South?  I always  
> considered him
> a true scholar.
>
> Holly Mills
> Amherst, VA
>
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