The Wind in His Fists

I was listening to Bennett’s “Our Sacred Honor” this morning.  He quotes from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams that contains Jefferson’s musings on the value of science:

As for France, and England, with all their preeminence in science, the one is a den of robbers, and the other of pirates, as if science produces no better fruits than tyranny, murder, rapine and destitution of national morality. I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighboring savages.

I feel the same way, and I do not doubt that those evils listed by Jefferson are indeed the fruits of science.