“If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men?” IfsMenLooksMomentsFormVoiceJudgmentAppealsFallenEnlightenedStatesmenPropheticDesertedBaffled Author:James Martineau
“Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment still more upon the white, because it has warped his sense of truth and has degraded his moral nature. The position and the treatment of the blacks, however, really improve from year to year; while the whites do not seem to advance in enlightenment.” YearsStillsMomentsSeemsBlackWhiteCommonMoralPositionEnlightenmentSlaveryCurseFallenPhrasesTreatment Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer