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… is from page 42 of the 2022 paperback edition of C. Bradley Thompson’s superb 2019 book, America’s Revolutionary Mind [2] (link added):
Jefferson and his fellow revolutionaries understood that there are two basic ways to deal with men in political society: either by faith and force or by reason and freedom. According to Jefferson [3], once man has surrendered his reason, he “has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.”