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Show z4 ON THJ! SLAVERY AND CoMMERCI': had an additional excuft, as arifing from their own vanity. The former having conquered Troy, and having united themfelvcs under one common name and interell:, began, from that period, to dill:inguilh the rell: of the world by the title of barbarians; inferring by fuch an appellation, *" that they were men who were " on! y noble in their own cot~ntry; that they " had no right, from their nature, to authority "or command; that, on the contrary, fo " low were their capacities, they were dif" titud by nature to obey, and to live in a " 11:ate of perpetual drudgery and fubjuga" tion," Conformable with this opinion was the treatment, which was accordingly prefcribed to a barbarian. The philofopher Arill:otle himfelf, in the advice which he gave to his pupil Alexander, before he went upon his Afiatick expedition, tin treated him to " ufe the Greeks, as it became a general) • Ariilotle. Polit. Ch. z, et infeq. t EAAI!!T/1 tl)'ifl-WJ,u;>, 70ir A BafCdpoJ~ ,JIE~7r()1t~t~( 'X.P.J.tr· 6fl,r '!1 T~v p.lv ,;, ~JlAt.JY ~ oix.HIC)v ~'rllp.th;<la«J, Tolr .N C:f (fdotr ~ ~v1eir <Vfo!T;£fi116cu. Plutarch. de Fortun. Alcxa.nd, {)rat. J, · " but oF THE HuMAN S!'ECrEs • . " but the barbarimu, as it became a majler; " confider, fi1ys he, the former as friends '' and domejliclu; but the latter, as brutes and "plants;" inferring that the Greeks, from the fuperiority of their capacities, had a natural right to dominion, and that the reft of the world, from the inferiority of their own, were to be confidered and treated as the irrational part of the creation. Now, if we confider that this was the treatment, which they judged to be abfolutely proper for people of this deicription, and that their flaves were Ulliformly thofe, whom they termed bad:arians; being generally fuch, as were either kidnapped from Barbary, or purchafcd from the barbarian conquerors in their wars with one another; we fhall immediately fee, with what an additional excufe their own vanity had furnilhed them for the £11lies af caprice and paflion. To refute the{e cruel fentiments of the ancients, and to thew that their flaves were by no means an inferiour order of beings than themfelves, may perhaps be confidered as an unne,e/fary tafk; particularly, as hav-int |