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The final foreword chapter just details the painstaking process of preserving and cataloguing the original book. There’s also some maps depicting the holy land and Europe, prior to the beginning of the actual content of the book.

Morality arose not from revelation or inspiration, but rather from the dictates of nature and reason.
You don’t need divinity to be a good human.

The book did not reach the public eye until the 1890s. It was eventually published in the early 1900s, and a massive amount of copies were eventually made to be distributed to new members of Congress, a tradition that held until the 1950s, when the copies ran out.

There is a book written by Joseph Priestly called “An History of the Corruptions of Christianity” in 1782.

He argued that science would demystify the world and undermine the political and religious authorities who promoted superstition to maintain their “undue and usurped authority.”

The parallels to modern politics and this statement is alarming.

TJ didn’t finish the book until he was 77. It’s to serve as a chronological, edited version of Jesus’ life & moral teachings, the “Most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man.”
TJ never went to bed without reading 30 - 60 minutes of something moral so that he could ruminate in the intervals of sleep. To him, religion was to remain between the individual and God.

Thomas Jefferson used this book as a source of his guiding principles throughout his later life. He began the book while he was President, but did not finish it until 1820. He viewed Jesus as a great teacher and moral philosopher, and wished to separate that wisdom from the supernatural or the superstition, while upholding the power of reason as the basis for understanding life and the world.