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The lectures on the Historic Americans were prepared at a time when the agitation over slavery was at its height. The two sermons here added dealt with the careers of men actively engaged in the discussion of the great issue of the hour. The slavery question entered into Parker's every estimate of all these public leaders. A failure to assent to his opinion on that absorbing issue was to Parker nothing less than moral delinquency. George William Curtis once told of Charles Sumner a story which might have been true of Parker. Once, he said, when I argued with him that his opponents might be sincere and that there was some reason on the other side, he thundered, Upon such a question there is no other side.' Parker saw so clearly the immediate and dreadful evil of slavery that he was sometimes led into unjust condemnation of men, quite as patriotic and as tender~hearted as himself, who felt that national disruption might be even a greater evil or who proposed other solutions of the problem than. That championed by the Abolitionists.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0656235136
- ISBN 13 9780656235131
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages474
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