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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 12 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 7 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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. 4 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 2 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 3 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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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 VI: the abstract principle of slavery discussed on Scripture grounds, and misrepresentations of the principle examined. (search)
inciple of slavery sanctioned by the Scriptures the Roman government Dr. Wayland's Scripture argument examined and refuted the positions of Dr. Channing and Prof. Whewell examined and refuted. the inquiry, if the institution of domestic slavery existing amongst us agrees in its details with the teachings of the Holy Scripturenot wholly unaccountable, misconceptions, if not gross misrepresentations, of the fundamental ideas of domestic slavery, we may place those of Dr. Channing and Prof. Whewell. The latter, in his Elements of morality states that slavery converts a person into a thing — a subject merely passive, without any of the recognized attribut and slave regards the slave as a brute, and not as an accountable man. The blind passivity of a corpse, or the mechanical obedience of a tool, which Channing and Whewell regard as constituting the essential idea of slavery, seems never to have entered the minds of the apostles. They considered slavery as a social and political ec