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Show THE Ltll:t:l\TY' DELL· 168 driven about like a f nnotber . b'ect wretchedness o l od and brutcbood." .l J between man lO b st . in short., llow that so close en ' b any means, a No . we cannot, y h Condition of Poverty ' . between t e Parallel musts d the Condition of tL • • mstnnccs, an under any mrcu <: ko of argument let us Slavery. But for the .. a l onccssion. h make t lO c . . ot because of t e pccu-b that lt ts n We say t en, l t we wage this deadly . css it causes t Hl liar unhapptn art of our cause we . Slavery. In supp war 1\o-amst . . f Slavery' nor are o be awful nuscnes o . do not plead t d t allow for nusery least indispose o we in the tmost endeavor to contribute our u elsewhere, or . . and removal. We war towards its allcvmbon : . crime: because as becn.usc It 1S a aoainst Slavery . h lly dependent upon 0 . t it 18 w 0 an evil in soClc Y• l 's will and is ' individua man ' man's will, upon t of human guilt. . 1 of the na uro therefore enbrc y od For in this one . clearly undcrsto . m Let thiS be d' t'uguished fro is perfectly IS t • respect Slavery Other evils arc provtden· every kind of Poverty. i'AUPI~IHS:'o! AND SL,\VEBr. ](H) tial, as we cnll them ; that is to sny they grow out of the inevitable condition of things: nobody in particular causes them, or is answornblo for them. But Slavery is a voluntary sin. Pauperism, in nll its dismal shapes, with a1l its terrible sorrows, is an old fact resulting from man's ignorance, error, and general imperfection, and will be outgrown as man becomes more wise and powerful, as he bettor understands himself and the world, and acquires more extensive command over the materials furnished for his earthly well-being. This proces.r.: must be long and painful ; all such development necessarily is. Slavery, on the other hand, i.s an · institution which the conscious will of man has built up, and which tho same will, faithfully exerted, might, for anything outside of itself to interfere, abolish in a year, a month, a week, :t day, in the brief moment that suffices to make a moral resolution. To remove Pauperism, tbe very elements of society must be transmuted ; the ingredients of human nature must be newly 15 |