I, too, have mixed feelings about this information technology but I know
that my students, now two generations worth of young people, accept it
totally. We are on the cusp of information technology (as I may have
written this list before) similar to that of the commencement of printing in
the West (the first book printed in China was the Diamond Sutra in I think
864 AD, which makes Guttenburg's Bible a sutra come lately.)
I suspect that in Guttenburg's and Caxton's century, the new book people
went to the scroll people to ask if there was anything worth knowing on
scrolls. Similarly, the Internet people seem merely curious about what
might be in books that are physical entities to be held in the hands.
We are privileged to be alive to see and try to understand this remarkable
transformation but I suspect we are powerless to stop or impede it.
Moreover, it is important to note that living in Manhattan I can choose to
either Google or go to the NYPL, but that would not be true if I lived in
the Amazon or Mali.
Harold S. Forsythe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: Jefferson Quote (or, the modern world of resources)
> Hi, all--
>
> This is the first such search I've done in which the direction to the
> answer
> was found through a Google book search and an Amazon book search--I'm
> really
> not sure what I think about that.
>
> The results of this Google search suggests that it comes from a letter to
> the Comte de Volney, April 9, 1797. Or at the very
> least, that the answer can be found in _Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate
> History_ by Fawn McKay Brodie.
>
> http://books.google.com/books?lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Eden+of+the+United+States%22+%22Comte+de+Volney%2C+April+9%2C+1797%22&btnG=Search
>
> This seems to be confirmed here, from Vol. 6 of Dumas Malone's _Sage of
> Monticello_ :
>
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0316544639/ref=A9/103-4521036-8243021?%5Fencoding=UTF8&keywords=Volney%20%22eden%20of%20the%20united%20states%22&p=S02A&checkSum=Jo8qw3%2bk8JU229oBgj1bHhpcACTVsP%2bjDu1ExVKOaww=
>
> Is it good or bad that I could find the information in this way? I'm
> rather
> torn, I confess. The researcher in me likes to have such ready access to
> information, but the librarian and historian appreciate the
> often-serendipitous usefulness of going into the library, while the
> intellectual-rights guy says that finding this info online is exactly what
> takes money out of scholars' pockets.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> --Eric
>
> Eric D. M. Johnson
> Proprietor
> The Village Factsmith Historical Research & Consulting
> http://www.factsmith.com/
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Grover" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 8:48 AM
> Subject: Jefferson Quote
>
>
>>I am trying to locate source of the of the following quote made by Thomas
>> Jefferson: "Indeed my experience in different parts of America convince
>> me
>> that these mountains are the Eden of the United States." Any
>> suggestions?
>>
>> Bill Grover
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