Sections 1 If I were asked to answer the following question: WHAT IS SLAVERY? 2 Disregard then, reader, my title and my character, and attend only to my arguments. 3 My mind was frightened by this strange result: I doubted my reason. 4 These axioms of the understanding, add the psychologists, these fundamental types, by which… 5 Thus, we know to-day that, by the laws of a universal magnetism whose cause is still… 6 All these phrases—FROM ABOVE TO BELOW; TO DESCEND FROM HEAVEN; TO FALL FROM THE CLOUDS,… 7 Whatever theory we embrace in regard to the shape of the earth and the cause of its weight,… 8 But this principle, right in its purpose, but misunderstood: this principle, as old as… 9 But what is there in man older and deeper than the religious sentiment? 10 Now, of what do the lawyers and the publicists treat? 11 Eighteen Hundred years ago, the world, under the rule of the Caesars, exhausted itself in… 12 Society was saved by the negation of its own principles, by a revolution in its religion,… 13 Finally a book appeared, summing up the whole matter in these two propositions: WHAT IS THE… 14 The nation, so long a victim of monarchical selfishness, thought to deliver itself for ever… 15 Bias and prejudice are apparent in all the phrases of the new legislators. 16 The people finally legalized property. 17 Is the authority of man over man just? 18 We are to proceed with the demonstration in the following order:— I. 19 The importance of the subject which engages our attention is recognized by all minds.
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