The Cotton Kingdom; a Chronicle of the Old South 27
The Cotton Kingdom; a Chronicle of the Old South 27
William Edward Dodd
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Harper's work, which first appeared in 1838 under the title of A Memoir on Slavery ^ was less historical but more to the point than that of Dew. The Bible and the ancient philosophers were of course the great witnesses. f TT^fp^i. ^/^t|p^jyH ^^ fll ayery as the nati^ alorder; "To constitute a society a variety of offices must ,be discharged, from those requiring the very lowest degree of intellectual power to those re- quiring the very highest. It should seem that the endowments ought to be app...ortioned according to the exigencies of the situation. And the first want of society is leaders. The first care of a state which regards its own safety, prosperity, and honor should be that when minds of extraordinary power appear, to whatever depailment of knowledge, art, or science their exertions may be directed, the means should be provided of their most consum- mate cultivation." But to others such careful training could have no significance. "Odiimi has been cast upon our legislation on account of its forbidding the elements of education to be Digitized by VoiOOQlC PHILOSOPHY OF THE COTTON-PLANTER 56 communicated to slaves.
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