The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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KNOWLEDGE / COMMUNICATION TO OTHERS

The nature of the correspondence which is carried on between societies instituted for the benevolent purpose of communicating to all parts of the world whatever useful is discovered in any one of them. These societies are always in peace, however their nations may be at war. Like the republic of letters, they form a great fraternity spreading over the whole earth, and their correspondence is never interrupted by any civilized nation.

to John Hollins, 19 February 1809