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___Excerpted, and images and NHC footnotes added, by the National Humanities Center for use in a Professional Development Seminar___. From the Correspondence of JOHN ADAMS &. THOMAS JEFFERSON. on Life, Religion, and the Young Republic from Lester J. Cappon, ed., The ADAMS -Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John ADAMS (The University of North Carolina Press, 1959). Reproduced with permission. John ADAMS b. 1735, president 1797-1801, d. July 4, 1826 at age 90. Thomas Jefferson b. 1743, president 1801-1809, d. July 4, 1826 at age 83. In the time of this Correspondence , ADAMS was 77 to 89 years old, writing from Quincy, Massachusetts, and Jefferson was 69 to 81 years old, writing from Monticello in western Virginia.
4 1815, June 20: Adams to Jefferson_____ The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the World by his own
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