Hence it appears, that so far from our resting ‘wholly upon a false deduction from past experience,’ we are resting on no experience at all; for no class of men in the world ever have maintained the principles which we now advocate.
Grimké argues that abolitionist principles are based on a lack of historical precedent for their advocacy.
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