" I am sorry that I have not room to
say all that he says on this subject. Perhaps the following beautiful
extracts may suffice:--
"But notwithstanding this, we ourselves, who profess to be
Christians, and boast of the peculiar advantages we enjoy by
means of an express revelation of our duty from heaven, are in
effect these very untaught and rude heathen countries. With all
our superior light, we instil into those whom we call savage and
barbarous, the most despicable opinion of human nature. We, to
the utmost of our power, weaken and dissolve the universal tie
that binds and unites mankind. We practise what we should
exclaim against as the utmost excess of cruelty and tyranny, if
nations of the world, differing in colour and form of government
from ourselves, were so possessed of empire as to be able to
reduce us to a state of unmerited and brutish servitude. Of
consequence, we sacrifice our reason, our humanity, our
Christianity, to an unnatural sordid gain. We teach other
nations to despise and trample under foot all the obligations of
social virtue. We take the most effectual method to prevent the
propagation of the Gospel, by representing it as a scheme of
power and barbarous oppression, and an enemy to the natural
privileges and rights of man.
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