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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...Egypt, through the religious empire of the Jews, through the literary and aesthetic States of Greece, through the military republic and empire of Rome, and then through the Christian dispensation for 1,800 years, met in the nineteenth century its arrest and overthrow. The world thought and wept, and the old falsehood, like the oath of the old novel, was blotted out by these angel tears. The student of history can see this thought growing if he will examine the great open field of church and state. In Athens for the 40,000 model and free aesthetic Greeks, there were 400,000 slaves; but to the Athenians, Homer was say ing: " That a slave was not half so valuable as a free man; " another was saying, "_No man was ever born to be a slave; that condition comes only as a calamity; " but these little seeds ofjustice cannot be said ever to have opened into a bud or even a leaf until the coming of George Fox and the Friends, two hundred years ago. These were the first Christians who ever threw against the wrongs of mankind, the doctrines and Church of Jesus Christ. England was soon abounding in these Quakers and from them came the genius of the Methodists and the restless intercession of Wilberforce. One of the most amazing things in human history is found in the fact that the world could have lived so long and have thought so little. The questions which arose for discussion were few and those were irrelevant. The omitted themes of study were many and tremendous. The wife, the child, the slave, the drunkard, the plow, the field, the orchard, the home, the school-house, the citizen, the government, rights, and liberty seemed unworthy of public or private debate. Doctrines of heaven and hell seem to have been the only...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 123001764X
- ISBN 13 9781230017648
- BindingPaperback
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