Southern Institutes, Or an Inquiry Into the Origin and Early Prevalence of Slavery and the Slave-Trade

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Excerpt from Southern Institutes, Or an Inquiry Into the Origin and Early Prevalence of Slavery and the Slave-Trade: With an Analysis of the Laws, History, and Government of the Institution in the Principal Nations, Ancient and Modern, From the Earliest Ages Down to the Present TimeIT is essentially the highest genius of the statesman and political philosopher to place human institutions and human progress upon their true foundation. Government, laws, and the organic principles of society owe their perpetuity and ad vancement to the true theory of their existence. History is his only measure of human experience, and the experience of the past can alone light the dark pathway of the future. The smoke and din of turmoil and commotion may for a while over shadow its radiance, but to the undeviating eye of philosophy and truth, it gradually reveals its twilight beams far in the dim distance, and they brighten upon his view like constellations in the celestial fields upon the steadfast gaze Of the astronomer. The eye of the true statesman and political philosopher is the eye of faith, it pierces the dim war-clouds Of contending factions, penetrating into regions of pure truth, into higher and more ample fields of being, and then basks in balmy daylight as calm and peaceful as summer sunshine, after the angry thunder-storm has spent its fury and passed away. The theory of the South has seldom yet been founded in truth, nor the philosophy of her institutions put upon its true ground.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.