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with me. And now to be called "ignorant!" Just as though I could not
reason, that is, draw inferences from premises, make deductions from
facts. There is the great fact of slavery; it is "the sum of all
villanies;" men holding their fellow-men in bondage for the sake of
gain; the heart naturally covetous, oppressive, and cruel, where power
is unlimited. As though the law of kindness could, in such
circumstances, possibly prevail and mitigate the sorrows of the bondman!
The direct influence of slavery is to debase, to make barbarous, to
petrify; I know as well as though I saw it that the South must be full
of neglected, perishing objects, cast out to perish in their sicknesses.
You doubtless are acquainted, dear Aunty, with the great change in the
mode of reasoning introduced by Lord Bacon. We reason now from facts to
conclusion; this is called the inductive method, to collect facts, then
draw inferences. The facts which I have collected on the subject of
slavery, in my reading and hearing, lead me to a perfect theory on the
subject, and my confidence in that theory is all which it could be if,
like you, I were now seeing it verified with my own eyes.
I reason on this subject of slavery, just as our philosophers reason
about the moon. You have learned, dear Aunt, ere this, that there is no
water in the moon. Certain things are observed by our telescopes, in the
moon, from which we are sure that there is no water there. Now there are
certain given facts in slavery. Slavery is Barbarism. It consists in
holding men to compulsory servitude. The human heart is avaricious; it
gets all it can, and keeps all it gets. Give it complete power over a
human being, and there are no limits to its cupidity and wrong-doing,
but the finite nature of the thing itself. Hence, does it not follow
that there can be no disinterestedness, no tender mercies in slavery?
Yes, dear Aunt, as we are perfectly sure that there can be no water in
the moon, so are we sure, by the same unerring rule of reasoning
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Notka biograficzna
Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.