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杰斐逊是美国杰出的激进人物。一个半世纪以来,他一直被尊崇为人道主义政治家;一位怀疑富豪和大企业的农业民主主义者;一位农民朴素生活的献身者;一位反对城市罪恶和工业主义者。 他的确是一位伟大的人物并且是非常复杂而不易于概括的人物。他短暂的一生在国际和国内舞台上经历了非常变化的几个时期。当然,他作为一位政治领导人,常常改变他的思想,但也确有某种定型,他的思想和行动还是与某种定型相吻合的。 正象近代西方文明中所有人道主义人物
Jefferson is an outstanding U.S. radical. For a century and a half he has been revered as a humanitarian politician; an agricultural democrat who doubts the rich and the big business; a peasant devotee for a simple life; and an anti-city sin and industrialist. He is indeed a great person and is a very complex figure that is not easy to generalize. His short life has undergone very different periods of change both on the international and the domestic stage. Of course, as a political leader, he often changed his mind, but he did have a certain stereotype, and his thoughts and actions were still in line with certain stereotypes. Just as all the humanitarians in modern Western civilization