Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History

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Index abolition of slavery. See gradualism; immediatist abolitionism absolute time, 3, 18–19, 21–28, 29, 34–35, 217–18, 221. See also rational time acceleration, 50–51, 74, 80–82, 94, 104, 118, 141–42, 171, 176–77, 258n132, 258nn138–39 Adams, Henry, 258n132 Adams, John, 14, 94, 162, 241n68, 252n34, 259n7; autobiography of, 185; and mirror metaphor of history, 111–12, 115, 137, 141, 176; historical reputation of, 6, 58, 162, 194, 195, 214, 253n50, 261n32; retirement correspondence with Jefferson, 185–88, 202, 205; and “Revolution of 1800,” 191–92; and style, 136 Aeneid (Virgil), 1, 69–70, 203, 238n93, 238n95 aesthetics of effect (Wirkungsästhetik), 136–37 African Americans. See blacks, Jefferson ’s views on; slavery; slaves Alberti, Leon Battista, 234n84 almanacs, 38, 43, 59, 231n30 ambition, 110, 114, 122–23, 157, 206 American Revolution: as example to the world, 215–16, 220, 257n124; historical representation of, 128, 147–49, 152–58, 158–59, 162, 189, 193–95, 196; relationship to French Revolution, 140, 174–77, 180–82, 257n124; and slavery, 8, 9–10, 11, 16, 59; verse epic about, 194, 261n27 anachronism, 54, 132, 146, 164, 197 Anacreon, 239n19 Anas (Jefferson), 160–62, 167, 195–99 ancien régime, 50, 53, 55, 71, 87–88, 102, 146, 166, 215–16, 219, 220, 237n77, 262n47 Anglo-Saxons, 117–20, 151, 168–69 animals, analogies to: European dynasties , 62–64; American slaves, 57, 61–64 antinomies, “Jeffersonian,” 4, 222 antiquarianism, 103, 107, 132, 138, 151, 159, 193, 214, 248n89, 253n38 Antiquités de la France: Premiére partie. Monumens de Nismes (Clérisseau), 163 antiquity: American, 2, 167–71, 172, 201; European, 17, 78, 116, 126, 144, 146, 150, 164–70, 201, 204, 249n101, 249n98 Italicized page numbers refer to illustrations. Index 280 approximation, 3, 22–23, 27, 29, 31–32, 35, 95, 218 archaeology, 169 architecture: Jefferson’s historical interest in, 6, 163, 211–12, 245n22; modernity of, 116; and preservation, 163–67; and memory, 89, 111; octagonal shape in, 111, 245n22 aristocrats, European, 48–58, 174, 181, 219; analogy to animals, 62–64; courage of, 54–55, 58, 65–66; sharing timerelated characteristics with American slaves, 48, 55–58, 60, 62–68 aristocrats, natural. See “natural aristocracy” Aristotle, 45, 60, 104, 124, 131, 133, 138, 152, 155–57, 189, 208, 242n84 Ars poetica (Horace), 134, 155 Atlantic slave trade, 13–14, 183, 187, 228n42 Augustine, 23–24 Austen, Jane, 46, 68, 234n1 authenticity, 133, 161–62, 164, 167, 214, 249n97, 254n69 Autobiography (Franklin), 41, 198 Autobiography (Jefferson), 14, 54–55, 160–62, 175, 195–99; causality in, 196; character development in, 196–98 “avarice,” 39–40, 43, 45, 110. See also disinterestedness; interest Bacon, Edmund, 36, 42, 162 Bacon, Francis, 102, 124, 162 Bancroft, Edward, 258n142 Banneker, Benjamin, 58–59 barbarism, “Gothic,” 116, 164, 166–67 Barlow, Joel, 59, 154, 194, 261n27 Baudelaire, Charles, 95, 242n74 Baxter, John, 207, 264n86 Bergson, Henri, 17 Berlin, Isaiah, 141; and “CounterEnlightenment ,” 251n9 Bible, the, 124, 132–33, 231n30, 248n93 Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge, 121–23, 247n56 Bingham, Anne Willing, 49–53, 98 “biographical war,” 4–5, 193–94, 260n25 blacks, Jefferson’s views on: courage of, 58, 65–66; inferior by nature, 62, 71, 219; and lack of foresight, 60, 65, 67, 71, 219; literary deficiencies of, 56–57; physical monotony of, 55–56, 57, 67; proximity to animals, 61–64; sexuality of, 57, 60; sharing time-related characteristics with European aristocrats, 48, 55–58, 60, 62–67. See also slavery; slaves Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount (Henry St. John), 107, 108, 112, 131, 132–33, 135, 144, 244n5, 244n13, 247n64 Botta, Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo, 158–59 Brown, Charles Brockden, 48 Brown, Mather, 53, 162, 163 Buffon, comte de (Georges-Louis Leclerc), 3, 256n111 Burke, Edmund, 54, 173, 235n28, 256n115 Burr, Aaron, 191–92 Burwell, Rebecca, 77 Cabanis, Pierre-Georges, 87 Caesar, 115–16, 134, 205–6 calendars, 30, 33–34, 76–77, 81, 102–3, 231n30 Carr, Dabney, 79 Carr, Peter, 41, 44, 124–25, 247n71 change: Jefferson’s gradualist conception of, 75, 95–100, 171–84, 203, 220–223, 253n52; as subject matter, 2–5, 17–20, 105–6 character: conception of, 105, 139, 196– 98; personal, 100, 120, 146–47, 162, 213; national, 38, 143, 163, 175, 181–83, 190–91 Chastellux, marquis de (François-Jean de Beauvoir), 91, 126, 149–50 chronicle, 197–98, 207, 261n40 chronology, 132–33 Cicero, 42, 129, 134–35, 168, 170, 193, 205–6, 245n37, 248n79 [3...