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INDIAN HISTORY
SECOND EDITION
for Civil Services Main Examinations

INDIAN HISTORY
SECOND EDITION
for Civil Services Main Examinations
K. Krishna Reddy
Former Director, Hyderabad Study Circle

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marshalled into the interpretations to imbibe conceptual clarity of the subject.
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examinations. Apart from adding a very elaborate separate chapter on Culture
in the ancient section, special emphasis is given to highlighting socio-
religious and cultural developments and concepts throughout the book.
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istory is not a mere collection of facts in the form of dates and names—
interpretations and explanations are the main pillars of a proper
understanding of history. Factual information can be effectively marshaled to
imbibe conceptual clarity. History is such a subject that a graduate from any
discipline—be it arts or sciences—can get a reasonable command of the
subject in a reasonable time.
This book will be useful for aspirants appearing in various state civil
services examinations and other competitive examinations where History is
an important topic.
It will also be extremely useful for civil services main examination. It will
also enable the aspirants to write their Essay paper with a historical
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Content
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Section-A Ancient India
• Chronology of Events – Ancient India
1. PREHISTORIC CULTURES IN INDIA
Periodisation of Indian Prehistory
Early Iron Age: Beginning of Historical Phase
Pastoral and Farming
Geographical Distribution and Characteristics of Pastoral and Farming
Communities (2000-500 bc)
Contacts With Indus Civilisation
Glossary of Archaeological Terms
Questions-I
Answers-I
Questions-II
Answers-II
2. INDUS CIVILISATION
Place of Indus Civilisation in History
Origins
Mature Phase
Economy
Culture and Society
Problems of Decline
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General Survey
Original Home of Aryans
Features of Aryan Culture
Vedic Texts
Sources for Reconstructing Vedic Society and Culture
Transformations from Rig Vedic Phase to Later Vedic Phase
Economic Conditions
Political Organisation and Evolution of Monarchy
Social Organisation and Varna System
Religion and Upanishadic Thought
Questions
Answers
4. PRE-MAURYA PERIOD
Early Historical Phase
State Formation and Urbanisation
Political History
Religious movements
Jainism
Bhagavatism
Brahmanical Literature
Questions
Answers
5. THE MAURYAN EMPIRE
Political History
Megasthenes
Asoka and His Successors
Asoka’s Inscriptions and Sites
Asoka’s Dhamma
Mauryan administration, economy, society and art
Economy
Society
The Arthasastra
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6. POST-MAURYAN INDIA (BC 200–AD 300)
General Survey
Sangam Texts and Society
Satavahanas and Other Indigenous Dynasties
Foreign Dynasties
Commercial Contacts with The Outside World
Schools of Art
Questions-I
Answers-I
Questions-II
Answers-II
Questions-III
Answers - III
7. THE GUPTAS AND THEIR SUCCESSORS (AD 300–750)
General Survey
Gupta Empire
Economic Conditions
Culture
Political and Cultural History of Their Successors
Socio-Economic History of Their Successors
Questions - I
Answers-I
Questions-II
Answers - II
8. SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Society: Evolution of Jatis
Varna System
Asramas
Samskaras
Marriage Forms and Practices
Marriage Practices
Position of Women
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Ancient Indian Secular Literature
Art and Architecture
Structural Temple Architecture
Sculpture and Iconography
Performing Arts
Personalities
Indian Classical Dances
Indian Painting
Questions
Answers
Section-B: Medieval India
• Chronology of Events – Medieval India
9. EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA AND CULTURAL TRENDS (750-
1200)
General Survey
Major Dynasties of North India
The Rajaputras
Feudalism
Cholas and others of South India
Cultural Trends 750–1200
Growth Of Regional Cultures
Religious Conditions and Importance of Temples
Shankaracharya and Hinduism
Languages and Literature
Islamic History
Questions I
Answers I
Questions-II
Answers-II
10. THE DELHI SULTANATE (1206–1526)
General Survey
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Delhi Sultanate Under The Slave Sultans
Ala-Ud-Din Khalji: Measures and Conquests
Muhammad Tughlaq’s Innovations
Firoz Tughluq and Decline of Delhi Sultanate
The Lodhis (1451–1526)
Administration
Agrarian Structure and Relations
Growth of Commerce and Urbanization
Growth of Trade and Commerce
Technological Changes
Evolution of Indo-Persian Culture
New Socio-Cultural Trends
Questions
Answers
11. PROVINCIAL DYNASTIES AND RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
Vijaynagar Empire
Other Provincial Dynasties
Monotheistic Movements
Growth of Regional Literatures
Questions
Answers
12. THE MUGHAL EMPIRE (1526–1707)
Introduction
First Phase of Mughal Empire
The Sur Empire (1540–55)
Akbar (1556–1605)
Other Great Mughals
Sivaji and His Successors
Economy
Commerce with Europe
Mughal Culture
Religious Thought: Abul Fazl
Social Stratification and Status of Women
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Answers
13. DECLINE OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE (1707–1761)
Later Mughals: Causes Behind Decline
Maratha Power Under the Peshwas
Regional States: Bengal (1717–72)
The Afghans
Sawai Jai Singh, the Astronomer
Rise of Urdu Language
Questions
Answers
Section-C: Modern India
• Chronology of Events–Modern India
14. BRITISH EXPANSION AND ADMINISTRATION
Introduction
Carnatic Wars
Conquest of Bengal
Mysore and its Resistance to British Expansion
Anglo-Maratha Wars and Treaties
Anglo-Sikh Wars
Annexation of Sind (1843)
Structure of British Raj
Governors-General and Viceroys
Constitutional Developments
Questions
Answers
15. ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE BRITISH RAJ
General Survey
Three Stages of Colonialism
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Railways
Commercialisation of Agriculture
Opium Manufacture in India
Rural Indebtedness and Growth of Landless Labour
Deindustrialisation
Growth of Modern Industries
Questions
Answers
16. CULTURAL ENCOUNTER AND SOCIAL CHANGES
General Survey
Introduction of Western Education and Modern Ideas
Indian Renaissance: Social and Religious Reform Movements
Manav Dharma Sabha
Nature and Limitations of 19th Century
Growth of Indian Middle Class
The Press and its Impact
Rise of Modern Literature In Indian Languages
Official Social Reform Measures Before 1857
Questions
Answers
17. RESISTANCE TO BRITISH RULE
General Survey
The 1857 Revolt
Peasant Movements
Trade Union Movement
Caste Movements
Questions
Answers
18. INDIAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE — THE FIRST PHASE
Growth of National Consciousness
Establishment of The Indian National Congress
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Growth of Extremism (1906–1918)
Economic Nationalism and Swadeshi Movement
The Act of 1909 and British Policy of Divide and Rule
Congress-League Pact of 1916
Home Rule Movement (1916–17)
Questions
Answers
19. GANDHI AND HIS THOUGHT
Gandhi (1869–1948)
His Techniques of Mass Mobilisation
Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movements
Civil Disobedience Movement
Quit India Movement
Other Strands In the National Movement—Revolutionaries
Swarajists
The Left
Subhas Chandra Bose and The INA
Questions
Answers
20. SEPARATIST TRENDS IN INDIAN NATIONALIST POLITICS
Separatist Trends
Rise and Growth of Muslim League
Pakistan Movement
The Post-1945 Developments: Partition and Independence
Indian Independence Act (1947)
Questions
Answers
21. INDIAN INDEPENDENCE TO 1964
Introduction
The New Republic and The 1950 Constitution
Jawaharlal Nehru’s Vision
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Agrarian Reforms
India’s Foreign Policy of Non-Alignment
Border Conflict with China and Chinese Aggression
Questions
Answers
Section-D: Revision
• A GLOSSARY OF ECONOMIC TERMS OF MEDIEVAL AND
MODERN INDIA
Socio-Economic Systems
Revenue Systems and Practices
Revenue Officials and Collectors
Different Taxes
Agrarian Classes
Commercial Systems and Practices
Commercial Classes
Miscellaneous Terms
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Chronology of events—Ancient India
BC
6000Neolithic settlements in Baluchistan
4000-
3000
Settlements in the Indus valley
3000-
1500
Broad period of Indus civilization
3000-
2500
Beginning/Early phase of Indus civilisation
2700Date of Indus seals found at Kish in Mesopotamia
2500-
1750
Mature phase of Indus civilisation; civilisation of the great
cities in the Indus valley (Mohenjodaro and Harappa), in the
Punjab (Kalibangan) and Gujarat (Lothal).
1750-
1500
Later phase/Decline of Indus civilisation; Immigration of the
Vedic Aryans
1500-
1000
Early/Rig Vedic Period; Settlement of the Aryans in the Punjab
and the western Ganga-Yamuna Doab
1000Iron in India
1000-
600
Later Vedic Period; Settlement of the Aryans in the central and
eastern Gangetic plains; emergence of jallapadas or territorial
kingdoms; Painted Grey Ware (PGW) in the areas of Aryan
settlement
817Traditional date of the birth of Parsvanatha, the 23rd
tirthankara
600Beginning of Second Urbanisation in India (eastern Gangetic
valley); Rise of 16 mahajanapadas
563-
483
Hitherto accepted date of Buddha
542-
413
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540-
468
Hitherto accepted date of Mahavira
518Gandhara and Sind satrapies of the Persian empire; Behistun
inscription of Darius
413-
364
Sisunagas of Magadha
364-
321
Nandas of Magadha
327-
325
Alexander's Invasion of India
326Battle of Hydaspes (Jhelum) and defeat of Porus (Purushottarn)
by Alexander
321-
184
Maurya Empire
305-
303
Chandragupta Maurya's war with Seleucus Nikator
272-
268
War of succession between Asoka and his brothers
268-
232
Asoka's reign
260Asoka's conquest of Kalinga
257Asoka's conversion to Buddhism by Upagupta
250Third Buddhist council at Pataliputra; Buddhist missions in
South Asia and the Hellenistic World
248Independence of the Greeks in Bactria
232-
184
Later Mauryas
184-
75
Sungas (Pushyamitra-founder, Devabhumi-Iast Sunga)
182Foundation of the Indo-Greek empire by Demetrius
166-
150
Menander, the most important of the Indo-Greeks
141Sakas conquer Bactria
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75-28Kanvas (Vasudeva-founder, Suserman-last Kanva)
58 Beginning of Vikrama samvat (era) by Vikramaditya of Ujjain;
Azes I, the second Saka ruler in north-western India
50 Emergence of Satavahanas in Deccan; King Kharavela of
Kalinga (Hathigumpha inscription)
2 Emergence of Satavahanas in Deccan; King Kharavela of
Kalinga (Hathigumpha inscription)

AD
20-46Gondophernes, the greatest IndoParthian king in Taxila; St
Thomas in India
45 Invasion of north-western India by the Yuechis under Kujula
Kadphises, who united the Yuechi tribes and established the
Kushan emoire
46 Discovery of monsoon winds by Hippalus, a Greek sailor
64 Chinese emperor Mingti sent agents to India for Buddhist texts
66 Arrival of Indian Buddhist monks, Kasyapa Matanga and
Gobharana, in China
77 Pliny's Natural History
78 Commencement of the Saka era by Kanishka
78-
110
Reign of Kanishka; Heyday of the Kushana empire
80-
128
Resurgence of Satavahanas under Gautamiputra Satakarni and
Vasishtiputra Pulamayi
130-
150
Rudradaman I, the greatest Saka satrap in western India
226Establishment of Sassanian dynasty in Persia
250Disintegration of the Satavahana kingdom
320Beginning of Gupta era by Chandragupta I
320-
335
Reign of Chandragupta I
335-
375
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360Ceylonese embassy to Samudragupta's court
375-
413
Reign of Chandragupta II, westward expansion of the Guptas
and peak of Sanskrit literature
405-
411
Fabien in India
413-
455
Reign of Kumaragupta 1; foundation of the Nalanda University
455-
467
Reign of Skandagupta; first attack of the Hunas
467-
540
Decline of the Gupta dynasty
500-
527
Rule of the Hunas over north India under Toramana and
Mihirakula
527Defeat of Mihirakula by Yasodharman
543-
755
Chalukyas of Badami (Early Chalukyas)
547Indikopleustes of Kosmas (fndicopleustes of Cosmas)
560-
903
Great Pallavas of Kanchipuram
606-
647
Harshavardhana's reign
622Commencement of hijra (Muslim) era
625The embassy of Pulakesin II to the Persian king, Khusrau II
630Harsha's clash with Pulakesin II on the banks of the Narmada
630-
643
Hiuen Tsang in India
630-
1070
Eastern Chalukyas of Vengi
634Aihole inscription of Pulakesin II
642Conquest of Badami by Narasimhavarman I of Kanchi
643Harsha's quinquennial assembly at Prayag
648Bhaskaravarman (king of Kamarupa) helped Wang Hiuen Tse
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675-
685
Itsing at Nalanda University
700-
728
Reign of Narasimhavarman II of Kanchi; peak of prosperity
and cultural activities
712Arab conquest of Sind
743-
789
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CHAPTER 1
PREHISTORIC CULTURES IN
INDIA
PERIODISATION OF INDIAN PREHISTORY
Evolution of Human Life
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
In 1915, a German geologist and meteorologist, Alfred Wegener first
proposed the theory of continental drift, which stated that parts of the
Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core. The fossil record supports, and
gives credence to the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics.
Wegener hypothesized that there was a gigantic supercontinent 200
million years ago, which he named Pangaea, meaning "All-earth".
Pangaea started to break up into two smaller supercontinents, called
Laurasia and Gondwanaland, during the Jurassic period. By the end of the
Cretaceous period, the continents were separating into land masses that
look like our modern-day continents. Wegener published this theory in his
1915 book, On the Origin of Continents and Oceans.
Meaning of Prehistory The past of humanity began long ago. Most of it
went unrecorded and this unwritten past constitutes prehistory. But a small
fraction of the humanity’s past was recorded or written down, and it is this
written past that constitutes history. Prehistory has been divided into various
ages or periods on the basis of the nature of material remains of the past.
Radiation Theory An interesting theory holds that modern humans evolved
from Homo erectus, fairly recently, in Africa, and then peopled the Earth by
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is supported by the genetic evidence of modern human populations. Human
DNA from all races and regions of the Earth is nearly identical, implying that
our species has a fairly recent and common point of origin.
Parallel Evolution Theory Another theory holds that modern humans
evolved in parallel, from several dispersed Homo erectus populations, at
roughly the same time. Some intermingling of these regional populations was
going on. The fossil evidence supports this theory.
Hominid Fossil Evidence Africa is said to be the cradle of human race.
Anthropologists have unearthed the oldest human skeletons in East Africa, in
places such as Hadar, Olduvai, Laetoli, etc. One of the best-preserved human
remnants is a female skeleton found at Hadar in Ethiopia. Anthropologists
assembled about 40% of the young girl that was given the nickname “Lucy”.
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‘Lucy’ at Hadar in Ethiopia
Hathnora Evidence Till recently, there was no unequivocal evidence of the
occurrence of a true hominid fossil anywhere in the Indian subcontinent. This
is in sharp contrast with the number of such finds in eastern and southern
Africa, Europe and parts of Asia, including China, and Java in Indonesia. The
discovery of such a fossil at Hathnora (near Hoshangabad in Madhya
Pradesh) in the Narmada valley by a geologist in 1982, put the subcontinent
on the global map of hominid fossil finds.
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erectus variety of hominid fossils. However, in his opinion, it differs from all
the known sub-species of Homo erectus in having comparatively larger
cranial capacity, higher vault and mental eminence. Further, this is also
supposed to represent an advanced stage of Homo erectus.
Subsequently, a controversy has developed regarding the evolutionary
status of the Narmada skull: Homo erectus or Archaic Homo sapiens?
However, the balance of current opinion seems to favour the latter position.
As of now, the age of the specimen is put in the range of 27 to 32 years; it is a
female (not male as originally thought) skull and its cranial capacity is in the
range of 1155 to 1421 cc, values which are high for African and Asian Homo
erectus but closer to ranges for Homo sapiens.
Table 1 Evolution of Species
Geological Ages Archeological
Ages
Modes of
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Pli-stocene AgeIce
Age
Paleo-thic
Age
LowerHunting-
gathering
Nomadic
or
migratory
life
Middle
Upper
Holocene Age (Ice-
free Age) From
10,000 BC
Mesolithic Age Cattle-
keeping
Agriculture
Settled or
sedentary
life
Neolithic Age
Chalcolithic Age
Table 2 Evolution of Human Life
Basis for Periodization
The earliest traces of human existence in India, so far discovered, go back to
the period between 3,00,000 and 2,00,000 BC. A large number of primitive
stone tools found in the Soan Valley and South India suggests this.
The modem human being (homo sapiens) first appeared around 36,000
BC. Primitive man in the Paleolithic Age, which lasted till 8000 BC, used tools
and implements of rough stone. Initially man was essentially a food gatherer
and depended on nature for food. He learnt to control fire, which helped him
to improve his way of living.
From 8000 BC, the Mesolithic Age began and continued up to 4000 BC in
India. During this time sharp and pointed tools were used for killing fast-
moving animals. Chotanagpur plateau, central India and south of the river
Krishna are some of the various Mesolithic sites.
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Almost all Neolithic settlements in the Indian subcontinent are not older
than 4000 BC. Man began to domesticate animals and cultivate plants, settling
down in villages to form farming communities. The wheel was an important
discovery.
Towards the end of the Neolithic period metals like copper and bronze
began to be used. This was the Chalcolithic phase (1800 bc–1000 bc).
Chalcolithic cultures extended from the Chotanagpur plateau to the upper
Gangetic basin.
Periodization
Paleolithic Age To begin with the Paleolithic Age, also called the Old Stone
Age, covered the long period from the time the first ancestors of modem
human beings started living in the Indian subcontinent, i.e., from roughly 3
lakh BC, to 8000 or eighth millennium BC. Archeologists divide it into three
phases—the Lower or Early, the Middle and the Upper Paleolithic Ages—
according to the nature of the stone tools used by the people.
Mesolithic Age Then came the Mesolithic Age, also known as the Late Stone
Age, which broadly covered the period from the eighth to fourth millennium
BC. It is the intermediate or transitional stage between the Paleolithic and
Neolithic Ages. The tools of this age are called microliths (very small tools).
Neolithic Age Third in the sequence is the Neolithic Age or the New Stone
Age that covered the period roughly from 4000 to 1800 BC and was marked
by the use of polished stone tools.
Chalcolithic Age Next is the Chalcolithic Age or Stone – Copper Age, which
generally covered the period from 1800 to 1000 or 800 BC. This period was
marked by the use of copper (the first metal to be used in India) as well as
stone.
Srinagar Valley in Kashmir to Karnataka and Andhra in the south.
In these regional cultures lay the roots of the future formation of Indian
village communities because their total cultural assemblage was certainly
extremely significant in the context of the early historical settlements of the
Iron Age.
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Lithic records of man’s activities in India, beginning at least 250,000 years
ago from now, have been studied by prehistorians against the drastic climatic
changes of the Pleistocene epoch, and the search for the elusive fossil of the
earliest man in India and his habitat continues.
Meanwhile, Early Stone Age tools have been found in different areas of
the subcontinent, the most notable among which are the Potwar plain bisected
by the Soan river in northwestern Punjab; the Beas and Banganga valleys;
Nevasa in the valley of Pravara, a tributary of the Godavari; Gudalur in
Gundlakarnma basin in Andhra Pradesh; Nagarjunakonda in the Krishna
valley, a string of sites (Vadamadurai, Attirampakkam, etc.) in the coastal
plain near Chennai, and the districts along the north bank of the Mahanadi in
Orissa.
In fact, if our knowledge of the earliest man is limited to his crude tools,
one thing is certain, and that is that there must have been an undeniable
attraction for these early men in the hills and valleys of the subcontinent, for
every survey produces their implements and underlines the ubiquity of their
presence.
Recent research suggests that not earlier than 35,000 years from now a
new technology, possibly deriving from that of the Early Stone Age, emerged
in India. Not only were the tools different, being made out of flakes or flake-
like nodules from such fine-grained material as flint, jasper, chalcedony, etc.,
the environment of the Middle Stone Age man seems to have been different
too, being less wet than in the Early Stone Age. In regions such as
Maharashtra, remains of the contemporary fauna have also been found.
The Middle Stone Age cultures were, however, not of similar antiquity or
duration in different parts of the country; the known dates range from about
33,000 BC to about 16,500 BC. There are, besides, indications that in some
regions like Western Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh the flake-making
technique was of a more improved variety than in others.
These regional variations in dates and the total cultural assemblage
became more prominent in the Late Stone Age heralded by the use of smaller
tools, the microliths. In Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and several
other areas, a long time span of 8500 BC– 1700 BC has been suggested for
these cultures.
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And there appeared, at least in a few areas, along with the microliths the
technique of pot-making—a technique of great significance in human history
as it came to be closely associated with food production and settled life,
which the Indian Late Stone Age anticipated in several ways.
Langhnaj in Gujarat and Adamgarh in Madhya Pradesh testify to the
presence of domesticated animals; there is evidence too of the exchange of
commodities between different areas and communities.
Distribution and Characteristics of Paleolithic Cultures
Paleolithic Tool Traditions There has been a gradual accumulation of data
on the early Pleistocene tools in the Indian Siwaliks. Uttarabaini in the
Jammu area has revealed early Paleolithic artifacts in the Upper Siwaliks.
Ample evidence has also come from the Siwalik region of the Potwar plateau
in Pakistani Punjab. The crucial site in the present context is Riwat, southeast
of Rawalpindi. The subsequent related evidence has emerged from the Pabbi
hills, to the east of Jhelum. Another area that is noteworthy is the Kukdi
valley in the Pune area of Maharashtra. There are eight volcanic ash
exposures near the village of Bori. Paleolithic artifacts are mostly found in
gravel. This is not early Pleistocene and earlier, as in the case of the Indian
Siwaliks, Riwat and the Pabbi hills, but if its dating is universally accepted,
the Acheulian industry in the Deccan can be taken to date from early middle
Pleistocene. In fact, the Paleolithic remains occur practically in all eco-zones,
or atleast in most of them, outside the major alluvial deposits, between
Baluchistan and the western borders of Bangladesh, and between Ladakh and
the Palghat area of Kerala.
Growing Knowledge about Habitat Our forefathers were certainly
knowledgeable about the suitability of different types of local stones as raw
materials for their tools and where such stones were not available, as was the
case in Tripura and Bangladesh, they preferred a suitable type of fossil wood.
They obviously knew the terrain they were living in. They had to know about
the local food and water resources and plan their activities accordingly. They
were, thus, the first explorers of Indian landscape. As we get back to the
lower Paleolithic, one of the burning questions is the evaluation of the Indian
subcontinent as a geographical zone in the overall scheme of human
evolution. What we can assert on the basis of the Hathnora evidence is that
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DISCOVERY OF FIRE
The discovery and use of fire was very important to early man for several
reasons.
They discovered that most animals are afraid of fire. So a campfire gave
some protection to the group or tribe.
They could camp in better locations. The fire, which gave them protection,
allowed them to choose places for camping. They no longer had to look
for trees to climb into or rocks and cliffs to shelter under.
It kept them warm. This goes with the second reason. They could move
into colder climates and hunt the animals that lived there. They could then
return to their campfire to warm up.
It was a healthier way of life. Cooked food is less likely to carry disease.
People began to cook their food consistently. As a result, it would have
been easier for the young and the old to survive.
It was a more social grouping. They could now gather in larger groups,
feeling safer and more secure. This allowed them to exchange stories, and
just talk to other people.
What went on earlier and later is, of course, still unknown. By the time we
reach the upper Paleolithic stage, their occurrences become more profuse and
the tools more diverse and beautiful.
Distribution and Characteristics of Mesolithic Cultures
Transition between Pleistocene and Holocene Periods Towards the end of
the geological period of Pleistocene (Ice Age) and the beginning of the
geologically Holocene (Recent, Ice-free Age) period, and between the
hunting-gathering upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic or a universal stage
indicating the beginning of food-production and village-farming economy,
the place of the Mesolithic as a distinct archeological level has been well
acknowledged in archeology. In the Indian situation, on the one hand, we
would assign this level to the preceding upper Paleolithic, and on the other, it
should be earlier than the first manifestation of the village-farming economy
in the regional context. Correspondingly, it should also be possible to ascribe
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MICROLITHIC TOOLS
Microlithic industry is easy to identify: usually less than 1 to 5 cm long
implements made mostly on short parallel-sided blades. In addition to the
‘pigmy’ versions of the upper Paleolithic types, such as points, scrapers,
burins, awls, etc., we also see lunates or crescents and the so-called
geometric shapes of rhomboids and trapezes, and triangles. The
distribution of early, truly Mesolithic evidence in India is still limited, but
the distribution of microlithic sites is very vast. In fact, it is easier to note
the areas without microliths than those with them. Except in a limited
section of the Ganga plain, i.e. near Banaras, microliths are not yet known
to occur elsewhere in the Indo-Gangetic plain. The hilly areas of the
northeast too have not yet shown any clear proof of the existence of this
industry. Otherwise, microliths are more common than paleoliths in the
sense that they are far more visible in the subcontinent.)
Excavated Sites At present, however, we have very limited knowledge of the
early Mesolithic in India. There are only seven or eight excavated sites with
proper occupational evidence and early dates in admittedly limited areas of
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and an assortment of
rock paintings which still seem to be confined only to the central Indian
highlands from Uttar Pradesh to Gujarat. Further, at least two of the sixth
millennium BC sites among them—Bagor, and Adamgarh—show
domestication of cattle and sheep/goat where people might already have
given up some of their hunting-gathering activities.
BHIMBETKA CAVES
Located about 45 km northeast of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, these caves
were accidentally discovered in 1957-58 by Dr. Vishnu Wakankar of
Vikram University, Ujjain. Subsequent excavations yielded remains,
serially from the Lower Palaeolithic Age to the Early Medieval Ages. The
caves have rock paintings, going back to 15,000 years ago in vivid and
panoramic detail. The most ancient scenes are believed to be commonly
belonging to the Mesolithic Age. Executed mainly in red and white, with
the occasional use of green and yellow and themes taken from the
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elephant riders, animal fights, honey collection, decoration of bodies,
disguises, masks, different types of animals, etc. It depicts the detail of
social life during the long period of time. Animals such as bison, tiger,
rhinoceros, wild boar, elephants, monkeys, antelopes, lizards, peacocks,
etc. have been abundantly depicted in the rock shelters. Popular religious
and ritual symbols also occur frequently. The colours used by the cave
dwellers were prepared by combining manganese, hematite, soft red stone
and wooden charcoal. Perhaps, animal fat and extracts of leaves were also
used in the mixture. The superimposition of paintings shows that the same
canvas was used by different people at different times.
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Food-producing Men: Neolithic-Chalcolithic Cultures
Settled life, based on food production, first began in the northwest. Here, man
progressed from incipient food production to the foundation of Neolithic-
Chalco-lithic village cultures. Elsewhere, food-producing cultures slowly
evolved, from about the beginning of the second millennium BC, in the
individual contexts of distinct regions.
If food-production does not characterise the Neolithic economy of the
Burzahom people of the Srinagar valley around 2400 BC (as they were still in
the hunting stage) it does so in the copper age economy of Ahar in the Banas
valley of Rajasthan, the Chalcolithic economy of Maheshwar-Navdatoli in
the Narmada valley, Nagda in the Chambal valley, Daimabad, Chandoli and
various other sites of the northern Deccan. In these areas the conditions of
early farmers living in open villages and cultivating crops which included
wheat, several kinds of legumes or rice, as at Chirand in south Bihar, may be
reconstructed with the help of excavated material.
In the south, in central and eastern Deccan, the economy was, in keeping
with the ecology of the region, predominantly pastoral, and the Neohthic-
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Karnataka, or Utnur and Nagarjunakonda in Andhra Pradesh. This period
continued from about 2000 BC to about the middle of the first millennium BC,
although in certain areas the advent of a new metallic technology seems to
have taken place earlier.
Whatever the chronological and regional differences in these cultures,
together they provided the preconditions of the future Iron Age.
INVENTION OF WHEEL
The wheel is probably the most important mechanical invention of all
time. Nearly every machine built since the beginning of the Industrial
Revolution involves a single, basic principle embodied in the wheel. It’s
hard to imagine any mechanized system
that would be possible without it. From tiny watch gears to automobiles,
jet engines and computer disk drives, the principle is the same. Based on
diagrams on ancient clay tablets, its earliest known use was a potter’s
wheel that was used at Ur in Mesopotamia as early as 3500 BC. The first
use of the wheel for transportation was probably on Mesopotamian
chariots in 3200 BC. It is interesting to note that wheels may have had
manufacturing applications before they were used on vehicles.
It is easy to assume that the wheel would have simply "happened" in every
culture when it reached a particular level of sophistication. However, this
is not the case. The great Inca, Aztec and Maya civilizations reached an
extremely high level of development, yet they never used the wheel. In
fact, there is no evidence that the use of the wheel existed among native
people anywhere in the Western Hemisphere until well after contact with
Europeans. Even in Europe, the wheel evolved little until the beginning of
the nineteenth century. However, with the coming of the Industrial
Revolution the wheel became the central component of technology, and
came to be used in thousands of ways in countless different mechanisms.
Earliest Agrarian Settlements
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6000 BC, while some found in south India and eastern India are as late as 1000
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was 4000–1800 BC.
While the early Neolithic people were primarily cattle-herders and had a
pastoral economy, the later Neolithic settlers gradually became agriculturists,
cultivating different crops and living in circular or rectangular houses made
of mud and reed.
However, the earliest known agrarian settlements in the Indian
subcontinent come from the west of the Indus system, Mehrgarh in
northeastern Baluchistan being the first village (6000 BC).
Neolithic settlers, suffering from one great limitation in the form of
complete dependence on stone, could not, however, found villages, far away
from hilly areas. But with the beginning of the use of metals and the
consequent transition from the Neolithic stage to the Chalcolithic phase,
people were now on the threshold of civilisation.
All these developments took place first in northwestern India and
culminated in the rise and growth of the great Indus civilisation, while the
rest of the Indian subcontinent or inner India was late in undergoing the
transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic and then to the Chalcolithic
periods.
The village of Mehrgarh was the first to witness the transition from the
Neolithic to the Chalcolithic phase by the fifth millennium BC. During the
next two millennia (5000–3000 BC) northwestern India witnessed not only the
transition from Neolithic to the Chalcolithic stage but also a great expansion
of agrarian settlements. From Mehrgarh settlements radiated to all the
neighboring areas, including the Indus valley.
Associated with permanent settlements were a series of new crafts
involving important technological discoveries. Among these were the making
of pottery, smelting of copper and its alloys, and their use in the making of
tools and weapons. All these developments, thus, involved the whole Indus
system, but largely left the subcontinent east of the Indus system untouched.
It is to be noted that during all this time (5000–3000 BC) there were no
settled agricultural communities elsewhere in the subcontinent, and that either
Mesolithic hunter-gatherers or early Neolithic cattle-herders peopled those
regions.
During the period of the Indus civilisation, however, these people of inner
India might have been influenced by the interaction with the advanced
Harappans and gone for adaptations. As a result, a number of Chalco lithic
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than 1800 BC though some continued till 1000 BC and others till 800 BC.
EARLY IRON AGE: BEGINNING OF
HISTORICAL PHASE
In the history of the use of metal, iron followed copper and bronze. In India
the advent of iron marked not only a technological change, but a cultural
change as well, particularly in certain regional contexts where, for
environmental reasons, a more advanced technology than copper-bronze was
a precondition for the full realisation of cultural potentialities. Throughout the
subcontinent iron led slowly but perceptibly to the transition from the pre and
proto-historical to the historical culture.
Iron Age Sites and Cultures
Regardless of the fact that Indian iron technology may be the result of some
diffusion from the west, the early history of iron in India can be examined in
tenus of different regional contexts, through the study of the various iron-
using areas of the subcontinent.
The chronology of iron differs from one area to another, but between the
period 1000 BC and 500 BC its use may be said to have spread to all major
areas:
The upper Ganges valley and its peripheries
Malwa plateau and the Tapti valley
South and Central Indian megalithic areas
Baluchistan plains
Middle and lower Ganges valleys
Northwest, mainly Peshawar region
From the evidence available at present, the earliest presence of iron may
be said to be in the first three major regions listed above.
In the upper Ganges valley and the Indo Gangetic divide iron is first
found associated, around 800 BC, with a culture known as Painted Grey Ware
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but by the middle of the sixth century BC it had become fairly common, and
was associated with the new Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW) Culture.
During this period its horizon expanded to include the central and lower
Ganges valley, where it marked a significant break from the earlier cultures.
In the Malwa region and Tapti valley too, at sites such as Nagda, Eran
and Prakash, iron brought in an element of change in the earlier Chalcolithic
cultures, and it is possible that the use of iron was slightly earlier in this
region (1000 BC) than in the Ganges valley.
Similarly, at Hallur in north Karnataka iron appears to overlap the
Neolithic implements of 900 BC. Furthermore, even if this date is not
applicable to the other Iron Age sites of southern India, a definite cultural
departure from the earlier Neolithic period is seen in the Iron Age megaliths
of this region.
Impact of Iron
In all the regions mentioned above iron brought in a change of economy, the
characteristic feature of which was a more advanced type of agriculture.
In the Ganges valley and in the Malwa region iron also led to the rise of
urban centers. Both Brahmanical and Buddhist texts are replete with
reference to cities during the middle of the first millennium BC and it is
precisely at such cities, Ahichhatra, Varanasi, Kausambi, Sravasti and
Ujjayini to name only a few that archaeological evidence of Iron Age
urbanisation is available.
Archaeology of the Iron Age phases of the Ganges valley settlements is
certainly much better known than that of the preceding phase; and there is a
hint of their being larger in size.
By the middle of the sixth century BC some of these settlements had
reached the proportions of urban centres. This suggests that for the first time,
since the decline of the Harappan civilisation, a substantial agricultural
surplus, which could sustain such urban centres, had emerged. The use of
silver and copper coins, in large numbers, during this period implies
considerable trade and commerce.
Some of the urban centers were also seats of political power, as suggested
by elaborate defense arrangements in some of them. Thus a political system
with definable territorial units as its bases had also developed by this time.
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later, some important elements of south Indian social organisation had
evolved in the megalithic phase and continued into the early historical times;
and at least for the extreme south such elements came to be preserved in the
corpus of Sangam literature.
Old Stone AgesBeginning (years
ago)
Cultural Tradition
Upper Paleolithic 17,000 Magdalenian
21,000 Solutrean
27,000 Gravettian
33,000 Aurignacian/Chatelperronian
Middle
Paleolithic
75,000 Mousterian
Lower Paleolithic 7,00,000+ ? Acheulian
Table 3 Paleolithic Tool Traditions
CategoryArea where sites are found
Lower
Paleolithic
Soan Valley (Pakistani Punjab)
Belan Valley (Mirzapur district of U.P.)
Middle
Paleolithic
Soan Valley, Belan Valley, Narmada Valley and
Tungabhadra Valley
Upper
Paleolithic
Belan Valley, Chotanagpur Plateau, Central India, Gujarat,
Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra
Table 4 Paleolithic Cultures
Site Locality Period
Adamgarh Near Hoshangabad, M.P.6th millennium BC
Bhimbetka Near Bhopal, M.P. 7th to 5th millennia BC
Baghor Near Sidhi, M.P. 8th to 5th millennia BC
Bagor Near Bhilwara, Rajasthan6th millennium BC
Mahagara Near Meja, U.P. 10th millennium BC
Sarai Nahar RaiNear Pratapgarh, U.P. 10th millennium BC
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Poplar Forest, April 25, 1816.
Sár,—Your favor of March 24th was handed to me just as I was
setting out on a journey of time and distance, which will explain the
date of this both as to time and place. The Syllabus, which is the
subject of your letter, was addressed to a friend to whom I had
promised a more detailed view. But finding I should never have time
for that, I sent him what I thought should be the outlines of such a
work; the same subject entering sometimes into the correspondence
between Mr. Adams and myself, I sent him a copy of it. The friend to
whom it had been first addressed, dying soon after, I asked from his
family the return of the original, as a confidential communication,
which they kindly sent me. So that no copy of it, but that in the
possession of Mr. Adams, now exists out of my own hands. I have
used this caution lest it should get out in connection with my name;
and I was unwilling to draw on myself a swarm of insects, whose
buzz is more disquieting than their bite. As an abstract thing, and
without any intimation from what quarter derived, I can have no
objection to its being committed to the consideration of the world. I
believe it may even do good by producing discussion, and finally a
true view of the merits of this great reformer. Pursuing the same
ideas after writing the Syllabus, I made, for my own satisfaction, an
extract from the Evangelists of his morals, selecting those only
whose style and spirit proved them genuine, and his own; and they
are as distinguishable from the matter in which they are imbedded
as diamonds in dunghills. A more precious morsel in ethics was
never seen. It was too hastily done, however, being the work of one
or two evenings only, while I lived at Washington, overwhelmed with
other business, and it is my intention to go over it again at more
leisure. This shall be the work of the ensuing winter. I gave it the
title of "the Philosophy of Jesus extracted from the text of the
Evangelists." To this Syllabus and extract, if a history of his life can
be added, written with the same view of the subject, the world will
see, after the fogs shall be dispelled, in which for fourteen centuries
he has been enveloped by jugglers to make money of him, when the
genuine character shall be exhibited, which they have dressed up in

the rags of an imposter, the world, I say, will at length see the
immortal merit of this first of human sages. I rejoice that you think
of undertaking this work. It is one I have long wished to see written
of the scale of a Laertius or a Nepos. Nor can it be a work of labor,
or of volume, for his journeyings from Judea to Samaria, and
Samaria to Galilee, do not cover much country; and the incidents of
his life require little research. They are all at hand, and need only to
be put into human dress; noticing such only as are within the
physical laws of nature, and offending none by a denial or even a
mention of what is not. If the Syllabus and Extract (which is short)
either in substance, or at large, are worth a place under the same
cover with your biography, they are at your service. I ask one only
condition, that no possibility shall be admitted of my name being
even intimated with the publication. If done in England, as you seem
to contemplate, there will be the less likelihood of my being thought
of. I shall be much gratified to learn that you pursue your intention
of writing the life of Jesus, and pray you to accept the assurances of
my great respect and esteem.
TO M. CORREA DE SERRA.
Poplar Forest, April 26, 1816.
Dear Sár,—Your favor of March 29th was received, just as I was
setting out for this place. I brought it with me to be answered
hence. Since you are so kind as to interest yourself for Captain
Lewis' papers, I will give you a full statement of them.
1. Ten or twelve such pocket volumes, morocco bound, as that you
describe, in which, in his own hand-writing, he had journalized all
occurrences, day by day, as he travelled. They were small 8vos, and
opened at the end for more convenient writing. Every one had been
put into a separate tin case, cemented to prevent injury from wet,
but on his return the cases, I presume, had been taken from them,

as he delivered me the books uncased. There were in them the
figures of some animals, drawn with the pen while on his journey.
The gentleman who published his travels must have had these MS.
volumes, and perhaps now has them, or can give some account of
them.
2. Descriptions of animals and plants. I do not recollect whether
there was such a book or collection of papers, distinct from his
journal, although I am inclined to think there was one: because his
travels as published, do not contain all the new animals of which he
had either descriptions or specimens. Mr. Peale, I think, must know
something of this, as he drew figures of some of the animals for
engraving, and some were actually engraved. Perhaps Conrad, his
bookseller, who was to have published the work, can give an account
of these.
3. Vocabularies. I had myself made a collection of about forty
vocabularies of the Indians on this side of the Mississippi, and
Captain Lewis was instructed to take those of every tribe beyond,
which he possibly could. The intention was to publish the whole, and
leave the world to search for affinities between these and the
languages of Europe and Asia. He was furnished with a number of
printed vocabularies of the same words and form I had used, with
blank spaces for the Indian words. He was very attentive to this
instruction, never missing an opportunity of taking a vocabulary.
After his return, he asked me if I should have any objection to the
printing his separately, as mine were not yet arranged as I intended.
I assured him I had not the least; and I am certain he contemplated
their publication. But whether he had put the papers out of his own
hand or not, I do not know. I imagine he had not; and it is probable
that Doctor Barton, who was particularly curious on this subject, and
published on it occasionally, would willingly receive and take care of
these papers after Captain Lewis' death, and that they are now
among his papers.
4. His observations of longitude and latitude. He was instructed to
send these to the War-Office, that measures might be taken to have

the calculations made. Whether he delivered them to the War-Office,
or to Dr. Patterson, I do not know, but I think he communicated with
Dr. Patterson concerning them. These are all important, because
although, having with him the nautical almanacs, he could and did
calculate some of his latitudes, yet the longitudes were taken merely
from estimates by the log-line, time, and course. So that it is only as
latitudes that his map may be considered as tolerably correct; not as
to its longitudes.
5. His Map. This was drawn on sheets of paper, not put together, but
so marked that they could be joined together with the utmost
accuracy; not as one great square map, but ramifying with the
courses of the rivers. The scale was very large, and the sheets
numerous, but in perfect preservation. This was to await publication,
until corrected by the calculations of longitude and latitude. I
examined these sheets myself minutely, as spread on a floor, and the
originals must be in existence, as the map published with his travels
must have been taken from them.
These constitute the whole. They are the property of the
government, the fruits of the expedition undertaken at such expense
of money, and risk of valuable lives. They contain exactly the whole
of the information which it was our object to obtain, for the benefit
of our own country and of the world. But we were willing to give to
Lewis and Clarke whatever pecuniary benefits might be derived from
the publication, and therefore left the papers in their hands, taking
for granted that their interests would produce a speedy publication,
which would be better if done under their direction. But the death of
Captain Lewis, the distance and occupations of General Clarke, and
the bankruptcy of their bookseller, have retarded the publication,
and rendered it necessary that the government should attend to the
reclamation and security of the papers; their recovery is now
become an imperious duty. Their safest deposit, as fast as they can
be collected, will be the Philosophical Society, who no doubt will be
so kind as to receive and preserve them, subject to the orders of
government; and their publication once effected in any way, the

originals will probably be left in the same deposit. As soon as I can
learn their present situation, I will lay the matter before the
government to take such order as they think proper. As to any claims
of individuals to these papers, it is to be observed that, as being the
property of the public, we are certain neither Lewis nor Clarke would
undertake to convey away the right to them, had they been capable
of intending it. Yet no interest of that kind is meant to be disturbed,
if the individual can give satisfactory assurance that he will promptly
and properly publish them; otherwise they must be restored to the
government, and the claimant left to settle with those on whom he
has any claim. My interference, will, I trust, be excused, not only
from the portion which every citizen has in whatever is public, but
from the peculiar part I have had in the design and execution of this
expedition.
To you, my friend, apology is due for involving you in the trouble of
this inquiry. It must be found in the interest you take in whatever
belongs to science, and in your own kind offers to me of aid in this
research. Be assured always of my affectionate friendship and
respect.
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Quáncy, May 3, 1816.
Dear Sár,—Yours of April 8th has long since been received.
J. "Would you agree to live your eighty years over again?"
A. ——.
J. "Would you agree to live your eighty years over again forever?"
A. I once heard our acquaintance, Chew, of Philadelphia, say, "he
should like to go back to twenty-five, to all eternity;" but I own my
soul would start and shrink back on itself at the prospect of an

endless succession of Boules de Savon, almost as much as at the
certainty of annihilation. For what is human life? I can speak only for
one. I have had more comfort than distress, more pleasure than
pain ten to one, nay, if you please, an hundred to one. A pretty large
dose, however, of distress and pain. But after all, what is human life?
A vapor, a fog, a dew, a cloud, a blossom, a flower, a rose, a blade
of grass, a glass bubble, a tale told by an idiot, a Boule de Savon,
vanity of vanities, an eternal succession of which would terrify me
almost as much as annihilation.
J. "Would you prefer to live over again, rather than accept the offer
of a better life in a future state?"
A. Certainly not.
J. "Would you live again rather than change for the worse in a future
state, for the sake of trying something new?"
A. Certainly yes.
J. "Would you live over again once or forever, rather than run the
risk of annihilation, or of a better or a worse state at or after death?"
A. Most certainly I would not.
J. "How valiant you are!"
A. Aye, at this moment, and at all other moments of my life that I
can recollect; but who can tell what will become of his bravery when
his flesh and his heart shall fail him? Bolingbroke said "his
philosophy was not sufficient to support him in his last hours."
D'Alembert said: "Happy are they who have courage, but I have
none." Voltaire, the greatest genius of them all, behaved like the
greatest coward of them all at his death, as he had like the wisest
fool of them all in his lifetime. Hume awkwardly affected to sport
away all sober thoughts. Who can answer for his last feelings and
reflections, especially as the priests are in possession of the custom
of making them the greatest engines of their craft. Procul est
prophani!

J. "How shall we, how can we estimate the real value of human
life?"
A. I know not; I cannot weigh sensations and reflections, pleasures
and pains, hopes and fears, in money-scales. But I can tell you how
I have heard it estimated by philosophers. One of my old friends and
clients, a mandamus counsellor against his will, a man of letters and
virtues, without one vice that I ever knew or suspected, except
garrulity, William Vassall, asserted to me, and strenuously
maintained, that "pleasure is no compensation for pain." "An
hundred years of the keenest delights of human life could not atone
for one hour of bilious cholic that he had felt." The sublimity of this
philosophy my dull genius could not reach. I was willing to state a
fair account between pleasure and pain, and give credit for the
balance, which I found very great in my favor.
Another philosopher, who, as we say, believed nothing, ridiculed the
notion of a future state. One of the company asked, "Why are you
an enemy to a future state? Are you weary of life? Do you detest
existence?" "Weary of life? Detest existence?" said the philosopher.
"No! I love life so well, and am so attached to existence, that to be
sure of immortality, I would consent to be pitched about with forks
by the devils, among flames of fire and brimstone, to all eternity."
I find no resources in my courage for this exalted philosophy. I had
rather be blotted out.
Il faut trancher cet mot! What is there in life to attach us to it but
the hope of a future and a better? It is a cracker, a rocket, a fire-
work at best.
I admire your navigation, and should like to sail with you, either in
your bark, or in my own along side of yours. Hope with her gay
ensigns displayed at the prow, fear with her hobgoblins behind the
stern. Hope springs eternal, and hope is all that endures. Take away
hope and what remains? What pleasure, I mean? Take away fear

and what pain remains? Ninety-nine one hundredths of the pleasures
and pains of life are nothing but hopes and fears.
All nations known in history or in travels, have hoped, believed and
expected a future and a better state. The Maker of the Universe, the
cause of all things, whether we call it fate, or chance, or God, has
inspired this hope. If it is a fraud, we shall never know it. We shall
never resent the imposition, be grateful for the illusion, nor grieve
for the disappointment. We shall be no more. Credit Grimm, Diderot,
Buffon, La Lande, Condorcet, D'Holbach, Frederick, Catharine; non
ego. Arrogant as it may be, I shall take the liberty to pronounce
them all Idiologians. Yet I would not persecute a hair of their heads.
The world is wide enough for them and me.
Suppose the cause of the universe should reveal to all mankind at
once a certainty that they must all die within a century, and that
death is an eternal extinction of all living powers, of all sensation
and reflection. What would be the effect? Would there be one man,
woman or child existing on this globe, twenty years hence? Would
not every human being be a Madame Deffand, Voltaire's "Aveugle
clairvoyante," all her lifetime regretting her existence, bewailing that
she had ever been born, grieving that she had ever been dragged,
without her consent, into being. Who would bear the gout, the
stone, the cholic, for the sake of a Boule de Savon, when a pistol, a
cord, a pond, or a phial of laudanum was at hand? What would men
say to their Maker? Would they thank him? No; they would reproach
him; they would curse him to his face. Voila!
A sillier letter than my last. For a wonder, I have filled a sheet, and a
greater wonder, I have read fifteen volumes of Grimm. Digito
comesse labellum. I hope to write you more upon this and other
topics of your letter. I have read also a History of the Jesuits, in four
volumes. Can you tell me the author, or anything of this work?

JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Quáncy, May 6, 1816.
Dear Sár,—Neither eyes, fingers or paper held out to despatch all the
trifles I wished to write in my last letter.
In your favor of April 8th you "wonder for what good end the
sensations of grief could be intended?" "You wish the Pathologists
would tell us, what the use of grief in our economy, and of what
good it is the cause proximate or remote." When I approach such
questions as this, I consider myself, like one of those little eels in
Vinaigre, or one of those animalcules in black or red paper, or in the
horse-radish root, that bite our tongues so cruelly, reasoning upon
the το παν. Of what use is this sting upon the tongue? Why might
we not have the benefit of these stimulants, without the sting? Why
might we not have the fragrance and beauty of the rose without the
thorn?
In the first place, however, we know not the connection between
pleasure and pain. They seem to be mechanical and inseparable.
How can we conceive a strong passion, a sanguine hope suddenly
disappointed, without producing pain, or grief? Swift at seventy,
recollected the fish he had angled out of water when a boy, which
broke loose from his hook; and said I feel the disappointment at this
moment. A merchant places all his fortune and all his credit in a
single India or China ship. She arrives at the vineyard with a cargo
worth a million, in order. Sailing round a Cape for Boston, a sudden
storm wrecks her—ship, cargo and crew, all lost. Is it possible that
the merchant ruined, bankrupt, sent to prison by his creditors—his
wife and children starving—should not grieve? Suppose a young
couple, with every advantage of persons, fortunes and connections,
on the point of indissoluble union. A flash of lightning, or any one of
those millions of accidents which are allotted to humanity, proves
fatal to one of the lovers. Is it possible that the other, and all the
friends of both, should not grieve? It seems that grief, as a mere
passion, must be in proportion to sensibility.

Did you ever see a portrait, or a statue of a great man, without
perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? These furrows were all
ploughed in the countenance, by grief. Our juridical oracle, Sir
Edward Coke, thought that none were fit for legislators and
magistrates, but "sad men" And who were these sad men? They
were aged men, who had been tossed and buffeted in the
vicissitudes of life—forced upon profound reflection by grief and
disappointments—and taught to command their passions and
prejudices.
But all this you will say is nothing to the purpose. It is only repeating
and exemplifying a fact, which my question supposed to be well
known, viz., the existence of grief; and is no answer to my question,
"what are the uses of grief." This is very true, and you are very
right; but may not the uses of grief be inferred, or at least
suggested by such exemplifications of known facts? Grief compels
the India merchant to think; to reflect upon the plans of his voyage.
Have I not been rash, to trust my fortune, my family, my liberty, to
the caprices of winds and waves in a single ship? I will never again
give a loose to my imagination and avarice. It had been wiser and
more honest to have traded on a smaller scale upon my own capital.
The desolated lover, and disappointed connections, are compelled by
their grief to reflect on the vanity of human wishes and
expectations; to learn the essential lesson of resignation; to review
their own conduct towards the deceased; to correct any errors or
faults in their future conduct towards their remaining friends, and
towards all men; to recollect the virtues of the lost friend, and
resolve to imitate them; his follies and vices if he had any, and
resolve to avoid them.
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the
understanding, and softens the heart; it compels them to arouse
their reason, to assert its empire over their passions, propensities
and prejudices; to elevate them to a superiority over all human
events; to give them the felicis annimi immota tranquilitatum; in
short, to make them stoics and Christians. After all, as grief is a

pain, it stands in the predicament of all other evil, and the great
question occurs, what is the origin, and what the final cause of evil.
This perhaps is known only to omniscience. We poor mortals have
nothing to do with it—but to fabricate all the good we can out of all
inevitable evils—and to avoid all that are avoidable, and many such
there are, among which are our own unnecessary apprehensions
and imaginary fears. Though stoical apathy is impossible, yet
patience, and resignation, and tranquillity may be acquired by
consideration, in a great degree, very much for the happiness of life.
I have read Grimm, in fifteen volumes, of more than five hundred
pages each. I will not say like uncle Toby, "You shall not die till you
have read him." But you ought to read him, if possible. It is the most
entertaining work I ever read. He appears exactly as you represent
him. What is most remarkable of all is his impartiality. He spares no
characters but Necker and Diderot. Voltaire, Buffon, D'Alembert,
Helvetius, Rousseau, Marmontel, Condorcet, La Harpe,
Beaumarchais, and all others, are lashed without ceremony. Their
portraits as faithfully drawn as possible. It is a complete review of
French literature and fine arts from 1753 to 1790. No politics.
Criticisms very just. Anecdotes without number, and very merry. One
ineffably ridiculous, I wish I could send you, but it is immeasurably
long. D'Argens, a little out of health and shivering with the cold in
Berlin, asked leave of the King to take a ride to Gascony, his native
province. He was absent so long that Frederick concluded the air of
the south of France was like to detain his friend; and as he wanted
his society and services, he contrived a trick to bring him back. He
fabricated a mandement in the name of the Archbishop of Aix,
commanding all the faithful to seize the Marquis D'Argens, author of
Ocellus, Timæus and Julian, works atheistical, deistical, heretical and
impious in the highest degree. This mandement, composed in a style
of ecclesiastical eloquence that never was exceeded by Pope, Jesuit,
Inquisitor, or Sorbonite, he sent in print by a courier to D'Argens,
who, frightened out of his wit, fled by cross roads out of France and
back to Berlin, to the greater joy of the philosophical court; for the

laugh of Europe, which they had raised at the expense of the
learned Marquis.
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. They have a general
now in Russia, in correspondence with the Jesuits in the United
States, who are more numerous than everybody knows. Shall we not
have swarms of them here? In as many shapes and disguises as
ever a king of the Gypsies—Bamfield Morecarew himself, assumed?
In the shape of printers, editors, writers, schoolmasters, &c. I have
lately read Pascal's letters over again, and four volumes of the
history of the Jesuits. If ever any congregation of men could merit
eternal perdition on earth and in hell, according to these historians,
though like Pascal true Catholics, it is this company Loyola. Our
system, however, of religious liberty must afford them an asylum.
But if they do not put the purity of our elections to a severe trial, it
will be a wonder.
TO JOHN TAYLOR.
Montácello, May 28, 1816.
Dear Sár,—On my return from a long journey and considerable
absence from home, I found here the copy of your "Enquiry into the
principles of our government," which you had been so kind as to
send me; and for which I pray you to accept my thanks. The
difficulties of getting new works in our situation, inland and without
a single bookstore, are such as had prevented my obtaining a copy
before; and letters which had accumulated during my absence, and
were calling for answers, have not yet permitted me to give to the
whole a thorough reading; yet certain that you and I could not think
differently on the fundamentals of rightful government, I was
impatient, and availed myself of the intervals of repose from the
writing table, to obtain a cursory idea of the body of the work.

I see in it much matter for profound reflection; much which should
confirm our adhesion, in practice, to the good principles of our
constitution, and fix our attention on what is yet to be made good.
The sixth section on the good moral principles of our government, I
found so interesting and replete with sound principles, as to
postpone my letter-writing to its thorough perusal and consideration.
Besides much other good matter, it settles unanswerably the right of
instructing representatives, and their duty to obey. The system of
banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it
as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in
their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption,
and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our
citizens. Funding I consider as limited, rightfully, to a redemption of
the debt within the lives of a majority of the generation contracting
it; every generation coming equally, by the laws of the Creator of the
world, to the free possession of the earth he made for their
subsistence, unincumbered by their predecessors, who, like them,
were but tenants for life. You have successfully and completely
pulverized Mr. Adams' system of orders, and his opening the mantle
of republicanism to every government of laws, whether consistent or
not with natural right. Indeed, it must be acknowledged, that the
term republic is of very vague application in every language. Witness
the self-styled republics of Holland, Switzerland, Genoa, Venice,
Poland. Were I to assign to this term a precise and definite idea, I
would say, purely and simply, it means a government by its citizens
in mass, acting directly and personally, according to rules established
by the majority; and that every other government is more or less
republican, in proportion as it has in its composition more or less of
this ingredient of the direct action of the citizens. Such a
government is evidently restrained to very narrow limits of space
and population. I doubt if it would be practicable beyond the extent
of a New England township. The first shade from this pure element,
which, like that of pure vital air, cannot sustain life of itself, would be
where the powers of the government, being divided, should be
exercised each by representatives chosen either pro hac vice, or for
such short terms as should render secure the duty of expressing the

will of their constituents. This I should consider as the nearest
approach to a pure republic, which is practicable on a large scale of
country or population. And we have examples of it in some of our
State constitutions, which, if not poisoned by priest-craft, would
prove its excellence over all mixtures with other elements; and, with
only equal doses of poison, would still be the best. Other shades of
republicanism may be found in other forms of government, where
the executive, judiciary and legislative functions, and the different
branches of the latter, are chosen by the people more or less
directly, for longer terms of years, or for life, or made hereditary; or
where there are mixtures of authorities, some dependent on, and
others independent of the people. The further the departure from
direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the
government of the ingredient of republicanism; evidently none
where the authorities are hereditary, as in France, Venice, &c., or
self-chosen, as in Holland; and little, where for life, in proportion as
the life continues in being after the act of election.
The purest republican feature in the government of our own State, is
the House of Representatives. The Senate is equally so the first year,
less the second, and so on. The Executive still less, because not
chosen by the people directly. The Judiciary seriously anti-
republican, because for life; and the national arm wielded, as you
observe, by military leaders, irresponsible but to themselves. Add to
this the vicious constitution of our county courts (to whom the
justice, the executive administration, the taxation, police, the military
appointments of the county, and nearly all our daily concerns are
confided), self-appointed, self-continued, holding their authorities for
life, and with an impossibility of breaking in on the perpetual
succession of any faction once possessed of the bench. They are in
truth, the executive, the judiciary, and the military of their respective
counties, and the sum of the counties makes the State. And add,
also, that one half of our brethren who fight and pay taxes, are
excluded, like Helots, from the rights of representation, as if society
were instituted for the soil, and not for the men inhabiting it; or one

half of these could dispose of the rights and the will of the other
half, without their consent.

"What constitutes a State?
Not high-raised battlements, or labor'd mound,
Thick wall, or moated gate;
Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd;
No: men, high minded men;
Men, who their duties know;
But know their rights; and knowing, dare maintain.
These constitute a State."
In the General Government, the House of Representatives is mainly
republican; the Senate scarcely so at all, as not elected by the
people directly, and so long secured even against those who do elect
them; the Executive more republican than the Senate, from its
shorter term, its election by the people, in practice, (for they vote for
A only on an assurance that he will vote for B,) and because, in
practice also, a principle of rotation seems to be in a course of
establishment; the judiciary independent of the nation, their
coercion by impeachment being found nugatory.
If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their
government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I
know no other measure, it must be agreed that our governments
have much less of republicanism than ought to have been expected;
in other words, that the people have less regular control over their
agents, than their rights and their interests require. And this I
ascribe, not to any want of republican dispositions in those who
formed these constitutions, but to a submission of true principle to
European authorities, to speculators on government, whose fears of
the people have been inspired by the populace of their own great
cities, and were unjustly entertained against the independent, the
happy, and therefore orderly citizens of the United States. Much I
apprehend that the golden moment is past for reforming these
heresies. The functionaries of public power rarely strengthen in their
dispositions to abridge it, and an unorganized call for timely
amendment is not likely to prevail against an organized opposition to

it. We are always told that things are going on well: why change
them? "Chi sta bene, non si muove," said the Italian, "let him who
stands well, stand still." This is true; and I verily believe they would
go on well with us under an absolute monarch, while our present
character remains, of order, industry and love of peace, and
restrained, as he would be, by the proper spirit of the people. But it
is while it remains such, we should provide against the
consequences of its deterioration. And let us rest in the hope that it
will yet be done, and spare ourselves the pain of evils which may
never happen.
On this view of the import of the term republic, instead of saying, as
has been said, "that it may mean anything or nothing," we may say
with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less
republican, as they have more or less of the element of popular
election and control in their composition; and believing, as I do, that
the mass of the citizens is the safest depository of their own rights,
and especially, that the evils flowing from the duperies of the people,
are less injurious than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a
friend to that composition of government which has in it the most of
this ingredient. And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking
establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that
the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the
name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
I salute you with constant friendship and respect.

INDEX TO VOL. VI.
Adams, John—His friendly relations with Jefferson restored, 30,
31, 36, 125.
His political principles, 152, 162, 166, 208, 357, 473,
500.
Terrorism excited against him, 155.
His religious opinions, 150, 159, 168, 171, 172, 174,
204, 208, 251, 264, 325, 357, 473, 545, 599, 601.
Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries compared, 501,
545.
The French Encyclopedists, 555.
Different systems of philosophy, 556.
His views on aristocracy, 160, 222, 254, 360.
Albemarle , County of—Its climate, soil, and natural advantages,
431.
Almanacs —Improvements in, suggested, 29.
Aristocracy —Views on, 160, 222, 254, 360.
Astronomy —Astronomical observations, 27, 28.
Bank, National —Views of the one proposed in 1813, 228.
Banks—Evil of the system of, 295, 300, 381, 434, 498, 515.
Jefferson's hostility to, 305, 381, 605.
Suspension of, in 1814, 381.
Number of, at different periods, 434.
Bollandists, The—Their collection, 475, 489.
Bonaparte—Views of his character and career, 283, 352, 358.
His fall, 352, 421.
His restoration, 458, 463, 480, 490.
His final abdication, 467, 490, 492, 553.

His feelings towards U. States, 464.
Canada—Attack on, 130.
Capitol—Burnt by English, 383.
Carr, Mr.—His character, 529.
Charities —Principle on which should be dispensed, 44.
Chemistry—The science of, 73.
Chesapeake Bay—Defence of mouth of, 111, 123, 134, 561.
Columbus —Portrait of, 343, 373.
Committees of Correspondence —Origin of, 527.
Congress—Power of States to prescribe new qualifications for
members of, 309.
Contracts—Law impairing obligation of, 461.
Currency —Relative merits of paper and metallic currency, 231.
Debt, Public—Evils of, 239.
Eclipse, Solar—16, 28.
Economy , Political —New work on, 261.
Edinburgh Review—Merits of, 345.
Education—Views on, 355, 362, 510, 517.
System of common schools, 512.
General system of, 564.
Eloquence —Specimens of, 346.
Embargo , The—48, 50.
England—Her maritime encroachments, 5.
Death of King of, 15.
Condition of, 33, 52.
Jefferson's sentiments towards, 53, 463.
Character of government of, 346, 468.
Social condition of, compared with that of U. States,
376.
Tendency to revolution in, 423.
Relations of with U. States, 467, 470.
Europe—Condition of, 114, 497, 503.
Relations with U. States, 114.

Moral condition of 18th and 19th centuries contrasted,
524.
Exports—Why exempted from taxation, 483.
Federalists—Their opposition to the war, 63.
Finance —Views on, by Mr. Jefferson, 136, 194.
France—French revolution, 41, 162, 227, 421.
Restoration of Bourbons, 428, 499.
Her revolutions, 499, 507, 520.
Prospects of, 526.
Generations—Right of one to bind another, 138, 196.
Glebes—Monies arising from sale of, 389.
Government —Principles of, 45.
Views on, 222, 413, 543, 589, 604.
Should be local, 543.
Definition of republican government, 605.
Grammar —Views on, 184.
Granger , Gideon—Relative to certain charges against, 329.
Grief—Its uses, 601.
Grimm, Baron—His character, 576.
Gun-Boats—133.
Hartford Convention —425.
Hemp-Breaker —New invention, 506.
Henry—His mission to eastern States, 50.
Henry, Patrick—Early reminiscences of, 364, 368, 369.
Resolutions of, 1765, by, 366.
Case of Josiah Philips, 369.
His manners and habits, 487.
History, Natural—Systems of classification, 319.
Hull's Defeat—101, 103.
Impressment—420, 426, 428, 467.
Indians —The Wabash prophet, 49.
Traditions of, 59.
Their religion, 60, 147.
Civilization of, 62.

Origin of, 120, 146.
Our policy towards, 269.
Languages of, 529.
Jefferson , Thomas—His bodily decay, 4, 519.
His devotion to agriculture, 6.
Efforts to extort money from, 9, 10.
His declining faculties, 107, 403.
His relations with Mr. Adams, 125.
Complains of publication of his letters, 282.
His views of merchants, priests, and lawyers, 334.
Made member of Agronomic Society of Bavaria, 363.
Tenders his library to Congress, 384, 387.
Resigns Presidency of Philosophical Society, 396, 397.
His feelings towards England, 449.
Estimate of his public services, 455.
Calumnies against, 465.
His estimate of life, 575.
Judiciary—Limits between powers of State and federal, 494.
Cannot bind legislature or executive by its decisions,
462.
Kings—Character of European Kings, 271.
La Fayette—His journal of his campaign in Virginia, 426.
Language—Introduction of new words in, 185, 572.
Is progressive, 185, 572.
Law, Common —Christianity no part of common law, 303, 311.
Interpolation on, 311.
How far binding, 65.
Works on, 291.
Lewis and Clarke—Publication of their journal delayed, 270.
Journal of their western expedition, 595.
Lincoln , Levi—Declines seat on bench of Supreme Court, 8.
Manufactures —Domestic, in U. States, 36, 69, 94, 472.
Growth of, during war, 430.

Mr. Jefferson's views on manufacturing system, 521,
553.
Medicine —Science of, 33, 105.
Ministers —Should not preach on politics, 445.
Monroe, James—Made Secretary of War, 410.
Morality—Its basis, 348.
Moral Sense—The existence of, 349.
Mountains—Method of measuring the height of, 492, 510.
Mulatto—Who mulattos under our laws, 437.
Napier, Lord—His theorem, 335.
Navy—Success of, 122, 211.
Orders in Council —Repeal of, 78, 117.
Orleans , New—Case of the Batture, 42.
Battle of, 420.
Orthography —Improvements in, 190.
Pacific Ocean—American settlements on shore of, 55, 248.
Parties in United States—95, 96.
Original division of, 143.
Patents—When should be granted, 175, 181, 295, 297, 372.
How long should last, 180, 295.
Perpetual Motion—83.
Philips, Josiah—His case, 439.
Philosophy —The true, 531.
Of the ancients, 147, 277.
Plato—His writings, 354, 360.
Poisons —164.
Portraits—Of Columbus and Americus Vespucius, 343, 373.
Of Jefferson, 344.
Press—Corruption of, 285.
Censorship of, intolerable, 340.
President —Should be elected for four years, 213.
Privateering —Success of, 409.
Religion —Views of J. Adams on, 150, 159, 168, 171, 172, 174,
204, 208, 251, 264, 325, 357, 473, 545, 599, 601.

Views of Jefferson on, 191, 210, 217, 302, 305, 387,
519.
The Christian system, 217, 412.
Platonic Christianity, 354.
The Jewish creed, 577.
The character of Jesus, 593.
Revolution —History of American, 489, 492.
Revolutionary men and documents, 249, 484.
Of South American States, 268, 274.
Reminiscences of, 364, 412, 484, 527.
Committees of correspondence, 527.
Rittenhouse , Dr.—His character, 324.
Rivanna River—Navigation of, 514, 541.
Rivers—Right to navigate, 541.
Saints—Lives of, 479.
Say, M.—Contemplates emigrating to U. States, 405.
Science , Political —160.
Slavery—How to be abolished, 456.
South American Provinces —Independence of, recognized, 550.
Spain—Her new constitution, 341.
Our relations with, 550.
Revolt of her South American colonies, 550.
Steam-Engines —504.
Surveying —New method of platting, 338.
Taxation—Principles of, 573.
Terrorism —The era of, 155.
Texas—Included in the Louisiana purchase, 551.
Theological Societies —Should not be incorporated, 533.
Tracy, Destutt—His works, 109.
Prospectus of his works, 568.
Treaties—With European nations, 453.
Power of Senate over, 557.
University of Virginia —Establishment of, 193, 371.
What chairs should be established, 389.

Organization of, 537.
United States—Social condition of, compared with that of
England, 376.
Relations of, with Europe, 13, 430.
Survey and census of, 548.
Virginia —Relative powers of Governor and Council, 38.
Aristocracy of, 225, 485.
New edition of notes on Virginia contemplated, but not
executed, 403.
Invasion of, by Arnold and Cornwallis, 410.
Patrick Henry's resolutions, 485.
Height of her mountains, 496.
Survey of, 578.
War—With England inevitable, 51, 57, 91, 215.
Efforts to avoid, 215.
Declared against England, 67, 215.
Causes for which declared, 398, 481, 452, 470.
Benefits resulting from, 444, 452.
Popularity of, and means of maintaining, 70, 391, 394.
Progress and History of, 76, 81, 100, 128, 211, 275,
307, 385, 408, 418, 423, 438.
Opposition to, in N. England, 79, 213.
Defection of Massachusetts, 402, 414, 451.
Hull's surrender, 80, 83.
Financial arrangements to meet expenses of, 137, 391,
395, 406, 408, 419.
Prospects of termination of, 353.
Purposes for which waged, 391, 394, 403, 452.
Internal effects produced by, 399.
Peace declared, 420, 426, 428, 438, 450.
Successful termination of, 453, 466.
Upon what principles war is justifiable, 539.
Washington, Gen.—His political principles, 97.
Adams' view of his administration, 157.
A sketch of his character by Jefferson, 186.

Statue of, for North Carolina, 534.
Washington City—Attack on, by English, 424.
Weights and Measures—Standard of, 11, 17, 26.
Wilkinson , Gen.—His relations with Mr. Jefferson, 34.

FOOTNOTES
[1] We are all occupied in industrious pursuits. They abound with
persons living on the industry of their fathers, or on the earnings
of their fellow citizens, given away by their rulers in sinecures and
pensions. Some of these, desirous of laudable distinction, devote
their time and means to the pursuits of science, and become
profitable members of society by an industry of a higher order.
[2] This gentleman's name is here occasionally used, and
although he came over in the year 1625, yet these passages in
reference to Morton fell out about this year, and therefore
referred to this place.
[3] Called Sulla.
[4] Johnson derives "place" from the French "place," an open
square in a town. But its northern parentage is visible in its syno-
nime platz, Teutonic, and plattse, Belgic, both of which signify
locus, and the Anglo-Saxon plæce, platea, vicus.
[5] [A lapse of memory, not having the letter to recur to.]
[6] The real cash or money necessary to carry on the circulation
and barter of a State, is nearly one-third part of all the annual
rents of the proprietors of the said State; that is, one-ninth of the
whole produce of the land. Sir William Petty supposes one-tenth
part of the value of the whole produce sufficient. Postlethwait,
voce, Cash.
[7] Within five months after this, they were compelled by the
necessities of the war, to abandon the idea of emitting only an
adequate circulation, and to make those necessities the sole
measure of their emissions.
[8] [Bracton has at length been translated in England.]
[9] [This has been done by Reeves, in his History of the Law.]

[10] [This accordingly took place four years after.]
[11] [The original has since been published in France, with the
name of its author, M. de Tutt Tracy.]
[12] Address lost. Probably to the President.
[13] [This is endorsed "not sent."]
[14] "The Committee of the Institute, for proposing and
superintending the literary labors, in the month of Frimaire, An
XI., wrote to the Minister of the Interior, requesting him to give
orders to the Prefect of the Dyle, and to the Prefect of the Two
Nithes, to summon the citizens De Bue, Fonson, Heyten, and all
others who had taken any part in the sequel of the work of the
Bollandists, to confer with these persons, as well concerning the
continuation of this work, as concerning the cession of the
materials destined for the continuation of it; to promise to the
continuators of the Bollandists the support of the French
Government, and to render an account of their conferences."
[15] Moore's Greek Grammar, translated by Ewen. Mair's Tyro's
Dictionary.

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