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Your proposition, however, for transplanting the college of Geneva to my own country, was too analogous to all my attachments to science, & freedom, the first-born daughter of science, not to excite a lively interest in my mind, and the essays which were necessary to try it's practicability.
--Thomas Jefferson
source:From Revolution to Reconstruction: Presidents: Thomas Jefferson: Letters: THE GENEVA ACADEMY
Jefferson seemed to think of Freedom as the "first-born daughter of Science."
What do you guys think about this notion?