 Is there any moral truth more deeply rooted in us, than that such a degradation would be an infinite wrong ? And, if this impression be a delusion, on what single moral conviction can we rely ? This deep assurance, that we cannot be rightfully made another's...  The Works of William E. Channing, D. D. - Seite 19von William Ellery Channing - 1841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 184 Seiten
...is plain, that, if one man may be held as property, then every other man may be so held. If there be nothing in human nature, in our common nature, which...ourselves as an unspeakable wrong, we condemn ourselves as wrong doers and oppressors in laying it on any who share our nature. It is not necessary to inquire... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 180 Seiten
...myself? Do we not repel indignantly and with horror the thought of being reduced to the condition oi tools and chattels to a fellow-creature ? Is there...ourselves as an unspeakable wrong, we condemn ourselves as wrong doers and oppressors in laying it on any who share our nature. It is not necessary to inquire... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1841 - 424 Seiten
...is plain, that, if one man may be held as property, then every other man may be so held. If there be nothing in human nature, in our common nature, which...wrong-doers and oppressors in laying it on any who share our nature.—-It is not necessary to inquire whether a man, by extreme guilt, may not forfeit the rights... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1852 - 666 Seiten
...Page 19 : " And if this impression be delusion, on what single moral conviction can we rely ? * * * The consciousness of indestructible rights is a part...the persuasion that we cannot be owned as a tree or brute. As men, we cannot justly be made slaves. Then no man can be rightfully enslaved." The first... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1852 - 656 Seiten
...Page 19 : " And if this impression be delusion, on •what single moral conviction can we rely ? * * * The consciousness of indestructible rights is a part...consciousness of our humanity involves the persuasion that we • •annot be owned as a tree or brute. As men, we cannot justly be made slaves. Then no man can... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1852 - 650 Seiten
...that is right in morals, and of all tha.t is true in religion. Hence, in the passage before us, — " The consciousness of indestructible rights is a part of our moral being," — the consciousness of such rights is his proof that we possess them; therefore, "the consciousness of our humanity involves... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1852 - 676 Seiten
...that is right in morals, and of all that is true in religion. Hence, in the passage before us, — " The consciousness of indestructible rights is a part of our moral being," — the consciousness of such rights is his proof that we possess them ; therefore, " the consciousness of our humanity involves... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1852 - 712 Seiten
...that is right in morals, and of all that is true in religion. Hence, in the passage before us, — " The consciousness of indestructible rights is a part of our moral being," — the consciousness of such rights is his proof that we possess them ; therefore, " the consciousness of our humanity involves... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1856 - 446 Seiten
...confidence be not built on a mere abuse of words. " The consciousness of our humanity," says he, " involves the persuasion that we cannot be owned as a tree or a brute." This, as everybody knows, is one of the hackneyed commonplaces of the abolitionist. He never ceases... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1856 - 384 Seiten
...great confidence be not built on a mere abuse of words. " The consciousness of our humanity," says he, "involves the persuasion that we cannot be owned as a tree or a brute." This, as everybody knows, is one of the hackneyed commonplaces of the abolitionist. He never ceases... | |
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