Fletcher of Saltoun
Fletcher of Saltoun
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' He foresees that he will be accused of inconsistency, and must face the question how he, the champion of liberty, can propose such a measure. But he answers that he regards not names but things. ' We are told, ' he says, ' there is not a slave in France ; that when a slave sets his foot upon French ground, he becomes immediately free; and I say there is not a freeman in France, because the King takes away part of any man's property at his pleasure ; and that, let him do what he will to any ma...n, there is no remedy. ' Public liberty may be complete in a country where there is domestic slavery, and he only proposes that the idle, sturdy beggar should be made a slave for the benefit of the country at large. That Fletcher was favourable to domestic slavery, as a social institution, is clear. He argues that the clergy are to blame for the 'multitude of beggars who now FLETCHER OF SALTOUN 57 oppress the world. ' His view is that churchmen, 'never failing to confound things spiritual with tem- poral, and consequently all good order and good government, either through mistake or design, ' recom- mended masters, when Christianity was established, to set at liberty such of their slaves as would become Christians; and the result of this advice was that thousands of persons, who had been well clothed, well fed, and well housed as slaves, were thrown loose upon the world, which has ever since been overrun by a ragged army of idle freemen who live on alms.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
' He foresees that he will be accused of inconsistency, and must face the question how he, the champion of liberty, can propose such a measure. But he answers that he regards not names but things. ' We are told, ' he says, ' there is not a slave in France ; that when a slave sets his foot upon French ground, he becomes immediately free; and I say there is not a freeman in France, because the King takes away part of any man's property at his pleasure ; and that, let him do what he will to any ma...n, there is no remedy. ' Public liberty may be complete in a country where there is domestic slavery, and he only proposes that the idle, sturdy beggar should be made a slave for the benefit of the country at large. That Fletcher was favourable to domestic slavery, as a social institution, is clear. He argues that the clergy are to blame for the 'multitude of beggars who now FLETCHER OF SALTOUN 57 oppress the world. ' His view is that churchmen, 'never failing to confound things spiritual with tem- poral, and consequently all good order and good government, either through mistake or design, ' recom- mended masters, when Christianity was established, to set at liberty such of their slaves as would become Christians; and the result of this advice was that thousands of persons, who had been well clothed, well fed, and well housed as slaves, were thrown loose upon the world, which has ever since been overrun by a ragged army of idle freemen who live on alms.
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