Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon].

  • Robert Chambers
Date:
1844
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Credit: Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his creatures is thwarted; by the other it is favoured. And thus we can readily see the most substantial grounds for regarding all moral emo- tions and doings as divine in their nature, and as a means of rising to and communing with God. Obedience is not selfishness, which it would other- wise be—it is worship. The merest barbarians have a glimmering sense of this philosophy, and it continually shines out more and more clearly in the public mind, as a nation advances in intelli- gence. Nor are individuals alone concerned here. The same rule applies as between one great body or class of men and another, and also between nations. Thus, if one set of men keep others in the condition of slaves—this being a gross injustice to the subjected party, the mental manifestations of that party to the masters will be such as to mar the comfort of their lives; the minds of the masters themselves will be degraded by the association with beings so degraded; and thus, with some immediate or apparent benefit from keeping slaves, there will be in a far greater degree an experience of evil. So also, if one portion of a nation, engaged in a particular department of industry, grasp at some advantages injurious to the other sections of s
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