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of too recent date to require dilating on here. But the slavery of America was 
as nothing compared with that of barbaric life. There, power without responsi- 
bility, was law. The will of the master was absolute, and could not be ques- 
tioned. The power of life and death even was in his hand, and none might call 
him to account for it. But in this case it is not only an African slave, but that slave 
is a woman. In a Christian land and with the social habits that Christianity has 
founded, it is hard for us to conceive of a state of society where a woman has ab- 
solutely no rights, and yet that is the status of woman to-day in pagan lands, and 
•was most certainly the status of woman in those times, the history of which we 
are quoting. But in reading further on we find she is given over to the lust of 
her master without even being consulted in the matter, and when her mistress 
finds she is about to become a mother she is angry with her, and even for a slave 
is said to have dealt hard with her. How much that means no tongue can now 
tell. She was of a despised race. She was the slave of a furious woman. She 
ran away, but had to come back again, and in that plight she was when she 
brought forth a son. What a beginning for the father of a nation ! 
But again. He grows up in that camp the bastard son of a negress slave, and 
was the butt of scorn and ridicule in that nomadic camp. But he has a fine 
constitution derived from his parents, and soon shows that he can hold his own 
with the best of them. He is spoken of as a probable heir to the whole estates 
of his father. But he despises him and when a real heir is born, he mocks at the 
ceremony at his birth. He is driven from the camp, with the tigress that has 
nutured him, and becomes a wild man. Just what he is most fitted for, both by con- 
ception, birth, and early training. "With his hand against every man, and every 
man's hand against him." Is such a father not a fit progenitor of the Arab of 
to-day, leading essentially the same life, on the same soil, and in many ways under 
similar conditions to what their father led? They are a standing verification of 
the truth of the story, as detailed in the Book of Genesis. 
What has been done to the moral nature of this race ? How has it been 
twisted, and distorted, turned as it were into another channel ? A mighty force 
has been projected into the track of this race, and forced it into a new and con- 
tinually diverging channel, a force that has been potent enough, to entirely divert 
the destiny of the whole race into the new channel that it was projected into, 
for more than forty centuries. 
But these are not the only examples that I could adduce; I might refer you 
to the gouty subject. His parents for generations may hare been healthy and 
frugal. They Hved temperately and enjoyed the reward of it, in good health. 
They moreover transmitted to him a good hereditary tendency along with a 
handsome fortune. In this they did well. But in one thing they failed. They 
left his moral training to the companions he might pick up, and it results in his 
becoming a high and fast liver, the result of which is that his excretory organs 
become impaired ; there are retained in his blood-current large quantities of nitrog- 
enous compounds which from defective oxidation are acid in reaction and unit- 
ing with the alkali of the blood sodium form compounds that are named gouty. 
