A Letter to the Hon Whitemarsh B Seabrook of St Johns Colleton
A Letter to the Hon Whitemarsh B Seabrook of St Johns Colleton
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Clearly not : — the old adage "tempora mutantur, " brings an argument to our aid- Bat another ground, "we are interfering with the essential well being of our slaves, by preventing their being taught to read the Bible, " 1 am yet to learn that knowledge of itself conduces to g 00C l_the moral desolation which marked the Philosopher of Ferney, and the citizen of Geneva, for its own, does not prove the position; nor yet the fact, that Gibbon, Ferguson, Priestley, * Even those friendly to our inst...itutions, injure us by citing the pro- ceedings, &c. Of our opponents, although it be done in kindness to warn us of our danger 9 (some have even added Newton and Locke, ) learned but to doubt. The idea is beautifully expressed in the lamentation of the good La Roche, when speaking of Hume's infidelity, "There is a pride in human knowledge which often blinds man to the truths of revelation. " If I know my own heart, and understand my own motives, so far from obstructing the de- velopment of moral and religious feelings in the slave by any measure, I would the rather lend my aid towards its encour- agement and promotion; and, as I have* already declared, would gladly appropriate the tithe of my income to the attain- ment of an object inevery point of view so eminently desirable — • hut honestly, I do not think that this measure is to be furthered by teaching them to road, for where one would draw the pure waters of life from the fountain of inspiration, hundreds would follow after false prophets, to their disquiet here, and perdition hereafter.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Clearly not : — the old adage "tempora mutantur, " brings an argument to our aid- Bat another ground, "we are interfering with the essential well being of our slaves, by preventing their being taught to read the Bible, " 1 am yet to learn that knowledge of itself conduces to g 00C l_the moral desolation which marked the Philosopher of Ferney, and the citizen of Geneva, for its own, does not prove the position; nor yet the fact, that Gibbon, Ferguson, Priestley, * Even those friendly to our inst...itutions, injure us by citing the pro- ceedings, &c. Of our opponents, although it be done in kindness to warn us of our danger 9 (some have even added Newton and Locke, ) learned but to doubt. The idea is beautifully expressed in the lamentation of the good La Roche, when speaking of Hume's infidelity, "There is a pride in human knowledge which often blinds man to the truths of revelation. " If I know my own heart, and understand my own motives, so far from obstructing the de- velopment of moral and religious feelings in the slave by any measure, I would the rather lend my aid towards its encour- agement and promotion; and, as I have* already declared, would gladly appropriate the tithe of my income to the attain- ment of an object inevery point of view so eminently desirable — • hut honestly, I do not think that this measure is to be furthered by teaching them to road, for where one would draw the pure waters of life from the fountain of inspiration, hundreds would follow after false prophets, to their disquiet here, and perdition hereafter.
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