The Works of William E. Channing, D. D.J. Munroe, 1841 |
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... interests , and then for our duties , we shall certainly err . We can never see the right clearly and fully , but by making it our first concern . No judgment can be just or wise , but that which is built on the conviction of the ...
... interests , and then for our duties , we shall certainly err . We can never see the right clearly and fully , but by making it our first concern . No judgment can be just or wise , but that which is built on the conviction of the ...
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... to its dignity . Let no man touch the great interests of humanity , who does not strive to sanctify himself for the work by cleansing his heart of all wrath and un- charitableness , who cannot hope that he is in a SLAVERY . 9.
... to its dignity . Let no man touch the great interests of humanity , who does not strive to sanctify himself for the work by cleansing his heart of all wrath and un- charitableness , who cannot hope that he is in a SLAVERY . 9.
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... interest and gratification ? Let this claim begin , and where will it stop ? If one may assert it , why not all ? Among these partakers of the same rational and moral nature , who can make good a right over others , which others may not ...
... interest and gratification ? Let this claim begin , and where will it stop ? If one may assert it , why not all ? Among these partakers of the same rational and moral nature , who can make good a right over others , which others may not ...
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... interests of the state . Man has rights by nature . The disposition of some to deride abstract rights , as if all rights were uncertain , mutable , and conceded by society , shows a lamentable ignorance of human nature . Whoever ...
... interests of the state . Man has rights by nature . The disposition of some to deride abstract rights , as if all rights were uncertain , mutable , and conceded by society , shows a lamentable ignorance of human nature . Whoever ...
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... interests under its shield . It may pass laws , but only impartial ones , framed for the whole , and not for the few ... interest of each and all , may demand the imposition of peculiar restraints on one or many , it is bound to limit ...
... interests under its shield . It may pass laws , but only impartial ones , framed for the whole , and not for the few ... interest of each and all , may demand the imposition of peculiar restraints on one or many , it is bound to limit ...
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Էջ 376 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They j give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Էջ 376 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse \ with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Էջ 17 - A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry and his labor. He can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything but what must belong to his master.
Էջ 364 - ... no condition in life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries, this is the cheapest and most at hand ; and it seems to me to be most important to those conditions, where coarse labor tends to give a grossness to the mind. From the diffusion of the sense of beauty in ancient Greece, and of the taste for music in modern Germany, we learn that the people at large may partake of refined gratifications, which have hitherto been thought to be necessarily restricted to a few.
Էջ 324 - We need an institution for the formation of better teachers ; and, until this step is taken, we can make no important progress. The most crying want in this Commonwealth is the want of accomplished teachers. We boast of our schools ; but our schools do comparatively little, for want of educated instructors. Without good teaching, a school is but a name.
Էջ 406 - The path to perfection is difficult to men in every lot ; there is no royal road for rich or poor. But difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Էջ 364 - ... exquisite workmanship, and that I were to learn, that neither man, woman, nor child ever cast an eye at these miracles of art, how should I feel their privation ; how should I want to open their eyes, and to help them to comprehend and feel the loveliness and grandeur which in vain courted their notice ? But every husbandman is living in sight of the works of a diviner Artist ; and how much would his existence be elevated, could he see the glory which shines forth in their forms, hues, proportions,...
Էջ 101 - Slavery, in the age of the apostle, had so penetrated society, was so intimately interwoven with it, and the materials of servile war were so abundant, that a religion preaching freedom to the slave would have shaken the social fabric to its foundation, and would have armed against itself the whole power of the state. Paul did not then assail the institution. He satisfied himself with spreading principles, which, however slowly, could not but work its dissolution.
Էջ 27 - Happiness, and a thirst for it which cannot be appeased. Such is our nature. Wherever we see a man, we see the possessor of these great capacities. Did God make such a being to be owned as a tree or a brute? How plainly was he made to exercise, unfold, improve his highest powers, made for a moral, spiritual good! and how is he wronged, and his Creator opposed, when he is forced and broken into a tool to another's physical enjoyment! Such a being was plainly made for an End in Himself. He is a Person,...
Էջ 19 - 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 property, does not rest on the hue of our skins, or the place of our birth, or our strength, or wealth. These things do not enter our thoughts. The consciousness of indestructible rights is a part of our moral being. The consciousness of our...