Low Value Set Upon Human Life in the United States

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Excerpt from Low Value Set Upon Human Life in the United States: A Discourse Delivered on Thanksgiving-Day, November 24th, 1853 Gentlemen: - It is not without some hesitation and reluctance that I accede to the request with which I am honored in your note of the 28th instant. The facts adverted to in my Thanksgiving Discourse are sufficiently familiar, but the subject is comparatively new. The causes of that disparaging estimate of human life, which has well-nigh become one of our national characteristics, are much less obvious than the evil itself. I have ventured to suggest two or three of them, omitting others altogether, and barely glancing at one which I believe to be of.radical efficiency, to wit, our defective systems of education. The discus-i£ very incomplete, and, apart from my desire to comply with any request proceeding from the gentlemen whose signatures I have before me, there is only one consideration which makes me willing to send this Discourse to the press. It is, in my opinion, the duty of every good citizen to do what he can to arrest this wholesale destruction of human life, and to reform the vicious public sentiment which shelters and virtually encourages it, I place my manuscript at your disposal, in the hope that it may promote, in some humble degree, these important objects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.