Workhouse of Nature (Quotation)

"And our own dear Monticello ... How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!"[1]
     - Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, October 12, 1786

References

  1. ^ PTJ, 10:447. Transcription available at Founders Online.

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