Friday Philosophy

It seems appropriate, given the impending Independence Day holiday, to offer up a quote from the author of the Declaration of Independence, namely Thomas Jefferson. This is from a letter he wrote on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of that document:

"All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man.
The general spread of the light of science has already
laid open to every view the palpable truth that 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."