Studies On Slavery Author:JOHN FLETCHER Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: action "is simple and ultimate, and distinct from any other idea or notion:" It is not true that we have a distinct faculty to make us acquainted with the exi... more »stence of all other distinct qualities : Therefore, it is not true, nor self-evident, that we perceive the moral qualities of an action, or that we have the idea or notion of it, by the aid of a single distinct and separate faculty. The "notion" advanced by Dr. Wayland, on this subject, appears to us so strange, that it would be difficult tdconceiv8 it to have been issued or promulgated by a schoolman, did we net know how often men, led by passion, some by prejudice, argue from false premises to which they take no heed, or, from a-.wa'nt of information, honestly mistake for truths. LESSON V. P. 206. "!t" (slavery) "supposes that the Creator intended one human being to govern the physical, intellectual, and moral actions of as many other human beings as, by purchase, he can bring within his physical power, and that one human being may thus acquire a right to sacrifice the happiness of any number of other human beings, for the purpose of promoting his own." This proposition is almost a total error. Slavery supposes the Creator intended that the interest of the master in the slave who, by becoming his slave, becomes his property, should secure to the slave that protection and government which the slave is too degenerate to supply to himself; and that such protection and government are necessary to the happiness and well-being of the slave, without which he either remains stationary or degenerates in his moral, mental, and physical condition. P. 207. "It" (slavery) "renders the eternal happiness of the one party subservient to the temporal happiness of the other." This is equally untrue. Slavery subjects ...« less