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 > > > ************************************** > See AOL's top rated recipes > (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) > > ______________________________________ > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the > instructions at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html