We are not at the center of everything. We are special thanks not to location but to vocation. It is not where we are, but what we do, that counts. And to do, we have to know. The Founders knew more about the universe than the ancients; we know more than the Founders. The Founders had an idea of gravity but did not know that the sun is made of plasma. They owned farms (and often slaves) but did not know how plants mediate solar energy for us. Jefferson was an acknowledged authority on fossils, which he called “bones,” but he mistook the claws of extinct ground sloths for those of living lions,
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