| Edward J. Dodson / Daniel J. Boorstin's The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (2354 words) |
 | Boorstin is, however, equally concerned that his contemporaries have traveled the same road and have selectively taken from the Jeffersonians to forge a philosophy out of context, an opportunistic agenda built without a foundation of principle. |
| Boorstin takes us a long way toward understanding why it was that even the best and the brightest eighteenth-century minds held deeply entrenched and conservative beliefs about the origin and nature of man and how this affected the fundamental relations of man with nature, man with man, and of man and the state. |
| In Boorstin's eyes as well, the state had assumed itself equal to the Creator assumed itself to be beyond the realm of natural law, and was well along the road toward a tyranny of the professional bureaucrat and terminal politician. |
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