Now about the barbs directed at those who attended St. Xavierýs and St. Maryýs school/college. I have repeatedly heard over the years the insinuation that Xavier/SMS students are secretly insidious automations that are brainwashed into converting everyone they meet into Christianity. It is such a delicious an allegation that most succumb to its temptation. Then the vendors of such poppycock nod their head in sagacity as they whisper this sotto voce to whoever is foolish enough to believe such nonsense. Hilarious stuff, this. Another wit states that ýit wasnýt just hard for them (meaning slave owners) to free the slaves but it was impossible.ý Right. Impossible? There has never been, or ever will be, an economic or any imperative in the history of this world, or even this galaxy, to justify human slavery. Certainly not in America, and definitely not by Thomas Jefferson.