And of course, slavery as well: The peasants are not subhuman, just a lesser class of humans whose natural function is to work so that we may do important things that they barely understand. See Jefferson's description of this: "the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god."
And less than two weeks later, Jefferson died. Amazing that he was still so passionate and eloquent days before his death.
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