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William A. Smith, DD. President of Randolph-Macon College , and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy., Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: withe Duties of Masters to Slaves., Lecture II: the abstract principle of the institution of domestic slavery. (search)
e, they furnish a constructive meaning of the term based upon this meaning. They call a man a slave to his passions, who has voluntarily given himself up to be controlled in his future volitions by his passions as the subjective motive of his actions. No bondage is more grievous than that which is voluntary, says Seneca. To be a slave to the passions is more grievous than to be a slave to a tyrant, says Pythagoras. No one can be free who is intent on the indulgence of evil passions, says Plato. And Cicero says, All wicked men are slaves. St. Paul, Rom. VI. 16, uses the term in the same sense, and with the greatest propriety: Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants [dou/lous, slaves] to obey, his servants [slaves] ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness? (See Dr. A. Clarke, in loc.) And again, Ephesians VI. 5-7: Servants, [dou=loi,] be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling,