3. Eerily relevant to so many things today: "Your eyes are like lamps to your body....

Eerily relevant to so many things today: "Your eyes are like lamps to your body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your body will be full of darkness. And if the light inside of you is darkness, how dark it will be."

You will next read the new testament. It is the history of a personage called Jesus. Keep in your eye the opposite pretensions 1. of those who say he was begotten by God, born of a virgin, suspended & reversed the laws of nature at will, & ascended bodily into heaven: and 2. of those who say he was a man of illegitimate birth, of a benevolent heart, enthusiastic mind, who set out without pretensions to divinity, ended in believing them, & was Punished capitally for sedition by being gibbeted according to the Roman law which punished the first commission of that offence by whipping, & the second by exile or death in furcâ.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to his nephew Peter Carr

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