ABSTRACT
The subsequent reference to the demand for "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," if not called by Bentham an "unalienable Right" would be called by him the demands of a patent instinct. Jefferson, however, significantly explains and expands his position when he comes to discuss Education. By equality is meant here that there is such a thing as a human race, not a multiplicity of races, and a human nature, itself basis of a Natural Law; and that this race is, as one, united by common bonds that have the strength of mutual obligations. The recognition of the freedom proper to the rational being is the contribution of Humanism to Democracy. The contributions derivative from the principles of Experiment and Tolerance are not less relevant. The characteristic note that sounds from this discussion is the note of Accommodation. It is not an operatic or a tragic note.
