Slavery and the Moral Imperative of Nature

Slavery is apparently an indisputable means even of spiritual education and discipline. It was a master stroke of English instinct to hallow and begloom Sunday, to such an extent that the Englishman unconsciously hankers for his week, and workday again. Many kinds of fasts are necessary, and wherever powerful influences and habits prevail, legislators have to see that intercalorie days are appointed,. on which such impulses are fettered, and learn to hunger anew.