"They [the Indians] will crayon out an animal, a plant, or a country, so as to prove the existence of a germ in their minds which only wants cultivation."
Notes on the State of Virginia
Jefferson, Thomas. <U>Thomas Jefferson</U>.
Ed. Merrill D. Peterson. Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States: New York, 1984. <a href="http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JefVirg.html">Link</a> to UVA e-text edition. 