The Works Of Theodore Parker The Rights Of Man In America

Author : Theodore Parker
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ISBN 13 : 9781330574577
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book The Rights of Man in America (Classic Reprint) written by Theodore Parker and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rights of Man in America In editing this volume in the long series of Theodore Parker's writings, the present writer has some advantage over the editors of previous volumes. With two exceptions, Wentworth Higginson and Rufus Leighton, they had no special acquaintance with the man, Parker; their knowledge of him is derived from books or from hearsay; to some extent from his biographies. But I knew the man personally for six or eight years, and for most of that time was in close and often daily intimacy with him. After years of this intimacy, he selected me, one of the youngest of his hearers and associates, as his literary executor, - an office which circumstances elsewhere explained, forbade me to perform. When, therefore, I have heard him described with cool misunderstanding, or evident prejudice, I have had only to recur to the memory of my long association with him, to correct the false impressions thus conveyed by persons who never knew him. Especially is this true of his relation to the national sin and curse, negro slavery, against which every great and wise American protested by voice or example, and which no truly sagacious fellow-countryman ever defended for any length of time. Many good men apologized for it, some who, like Jefferson, portrayed with searching acuteness its evils and dangers, may afterwards have seemed to excuse it; but only because they could not see the way clearly to its abolition in their day. With Parker the course of opinion and action, as with Emerson, was the reverse of this. 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.