Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 629
... labor , indeed by labor in slaveholding States ? In accounting for these shortcomings my predicate is , that the cause must be found , not in the absence of nat- ural resources , and not in any inferiority of our white race , but in the ...
... labor , indeed by labor in slaveholding States ? In accounting for these shortcomings my predicate is , that the cause must be found , not in the absence of nat- ural resources , and not in any inferiority of our white race , but in the ...
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... labor , by which alone they can be utilized , has been degraded as a thing of muscle , meet to belong to the slave , and not honored as the God - intended means by which educated genius and skill should convert everything into power ...
... labor , by which alone they can be utilized , has been degraded as a thing of muscle , meet to belong to the slave , and not honored as the God - intended means by which educated genius and skill should convert everything into power ...
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... labor itself , and have thus made it promo- tive of social caste to be able to live idly , and one of the greatest misfortunes , entailing a sort of social exclusion , to be compelled to labor . This system has rendered our own people ...
... labor itself , and have thus made it promo- tive of social caste to be able to live idly , and one of the greatest misfortunes , entailing a sort of social exclusion , to be compelled to labor . This system has rendered our own people ...
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VOLUME VIII | 399 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 413 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 419 |
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