[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—If you can, find
space for the following quotation from
Crozier's " History of Intellectual Development," vol. i., p. 27C, in view of its bearing upon recent correspondence in you columns.
"When St. Paul had given his countenance to the slave system which lay at the base of the Roman state, and which could not have been abolished without shaking society to its foundation.; when St. Paul insisted only that the relation of master and slave should be moralized on both sides in the Spirit of Christ, his words from the time that they were made part of the Divine Revelation, gave the world liberty and authority to perpetuate slavery to all time. What a curse this became in other times and under other social conditions, the great war of liberation in America, when slavery was defended by ministers of tho South from the mouth of St. Paul himself, will be our witness."
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