Western Races and the World; Essays Arranged and Ed by F S Marvin

By: Marvin, Francis Sydney

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...of the hour; but considered as a pamphlet, it achieved its purpose. The Abbe Raynal, in spite of his faults, deserves well of all oppressed and subject peoples. In fact, throughout the eighteenth century and as a consequence of the general trend of its thought, which affected all schools, even though in different degrees, there was a continuous testimony to the great truth of human unity, a protest ever growing in warmth and power, against the ill-treatment or the enslavement of weaker races. A long line of poets from Pope to Cowper, historians like Robertson, economists like Dean Tucker and Adam Smith, joined the protest, and the last named showed that in the end free labour was more profitable than that of slaves. But none were stronger than the Tory Dr. Johnson, of whom Boswell says, that he was always 'very zealous against slavery in every form'. The affection that existed between Johnson and his negro servant, black Frank, is a beautiful episode in his noble life. But he was very far from confining his sympathy to those who, in losing their personal liberty, had experienced the hardest fate of all. He had no fondness for Empire. 'All distant power is bad.' And when he heard of the suicide of the great Lord Give, he only expressed surprise that remorse for his deeds in India had not driven him to it long before. A still more illustrious conservative, my countryman Edmund Burke, he who met the revolutionary philosophy of his age in the only way in which it could be satisfactorily met, by opposing to individual rights the organic view of society as a living and growing whole, made himself the great defender of the people of India. The trading company that found itself so strangely the rulers of an Empire were not without some good...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1235986861
• ISBN13: 9781235986864
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: General Books LLC
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.4" x 9.7"