Some Thoughts Concerning Domestic Slavery (Classic Reprint)
Carey, John L. Excerpt from Some Thoughts Concerning Domestic SlaveryYet is not man herein the less favoured. If rights are not granted to him unconditionally as inherent and absolute, it is that he has the nobler prerogative of acquiring them for himself. If they are made to depend upon the proper exercise of his own powers it is because in such exercise con sists his real glory because thereby he attains to the excellence of his nature, to usefulness and t...