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unreasonable these impositions may be. Conse- 

 quently, he cannot come to any decision as to what 

 he should or should not do, because he has not the 

 reasoning faculties of man to argue the justice of the 

 thing demanded of him. If he had, taking into con- 

 sideration his superior strength, he would be useless 

 to man as a servant. Give him mind in proportion 

 to his strength, and he will demand of us the green 

 fields for his inheritance, where he will roam at 

 leisure, denying the right of servitude at all. God 

 has wisely formed his nature so that it can be 

 operated upon by the knowledge of man according to 

 the dictates of his will; and he might well be termed 

 an unconscious, submissive servant. This truth we 

 can see verified in every day's experience by the 

 abuses practised upon him. Any one who chooses 

 to be so cruel, can mount the noble steed and run 

 him till he drops with fatigue, or, as is often the case 

 with the more spirited, falls dead beneath his rider. 

 If he had the power to reason, would he not rear 

 and pitch his rider, rather than suffer him to run 

 him to death ? Or would he condescend to carry 

 at all the vain impostor, who, with but equal in- 

 tellect, was trying to impose on his equal rights 

 and equally independent spirit ? But happily for us, 

 he has no consciousness of imposition, no thought of 

 disobedience except by impulse caused by the viola- 

 tion of the law of his nature. Consequently, when 

 disobedient, it is the fault of man. 



