No shoulders in the church were broader than theirs; and I must say, badly as I detest the principles laid down and defended by them, I was compelled to acknowledge the vast mental endowments of the men.
Douglass acknowledges the intellectual capabilities of church leaders despite his disagreement with their principles.
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It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.
It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.