...cannot resist quoting it now. " It is not indeed the fine arts which our country requires," he writes, " the useful, the mechanic arts are those which we have...yet simple and not far advanced in luxury, although much too far for her age and character. . . . The science of government it is my duty to study, more...

...motivated our Founding Fathers were enunciated in summary by John Adams who wrote to his wife from Paris : It is not indeed the fine arts which our country requires...useful, the mechanic arts are those which we have an occasion for in a young country * * * I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty...

...motivated our Founding Fathers were enunciated in summary by John Adams who wrote to his wife from Paris : It is not indeed the fine arts which our country requires...useful, the mechanic arts are those which we have an occasion for in a young country * * * I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty...

...as well as in Statuary. Another Walk in the Gardens of Versailles, would be usefull and agreable.— But to observe these Objects with Taste and describe...Country, as yet simple and not far advanced in Luxury, altho perhaps much too far for her Age and Character. I could fill Volumes with Descriptions of Temples...

...the same time he was writing his wife Abigail (May, 1780) the impassioned and justly famous words: It is not indeed the fine Arts which our Country requires. The Usefull, the Mechanic Arts, are those which We have occasion for in a young Country. . . . I must study...