Call it high-water mark, if you will; but this is the true line for judgment, and not the low-water mark of Slavery, which is always adopted by the apologists for Caste.

Toussaint l’Ouverture is the actual standard by which the African must be judged.

When studied where he is chiefly seen,--not in the affairs of government, but in daily life,--the African awakens attachment and respect.

The man thus portrayed was an African, whose only school was Slavery.

The apologist for Caste will be astonished to know, but it is none the less true, that the capacity of the African in scholarship and science is better attested than that of anybody claiming to be his master.

What modern slave-master has taught the Latin like Juan Latino at Seville, in Spain,--written it like Capitein at the Hague, or Williams at Jamaica,--gained academic honors like those accorded to Amo by the University of Wittenberg?

How often has he returned the harshness of his master with care and protection!

The African, more than the European, is formed by Nature for the Christian graces.

It is easy to picture another age, when the virtues which ennoble the African will return to bless the people who now discredit him, and Christianity will receive a new development.

But it may be according to the same Providence, that the gentler people, elevated in knowledge, will teach their teachers what knowledge alone cannot impart, and the African shall more than repay all that he receives.

The pioneer intelligence of Europe going to blend with the gentleness of Africa will be a blessed sight, but not more blessed than the gentleness of Africa returning to blend with that same intelligence at home.

Under such combined influences men will not only know and do, but they will feel also; so that knowledge in all its departments, and life in all its activities, will have the triumphant inspiration of Human Brotherhood.

Reason, courage, and hope are our allies, while the bountiful agencies of Civilization open the way.

Time and space, ancient tyrants keeping people apart, are now overcome.

There is nothing of aspiration for Universal Man which is not within the reach of well-directed effort,--no matter in what unknown recess of continent, no matter on what distant island of the sea.

Wherever Man exists, there are the capacities of manhood, with that greatest of all, the capacity for improvement; and the civilization we have reached supplies the means.

Man must know himself, and that law of Unity appointed for the Human Family.

Light in the world is more than armies or navies.

Not the earth, but the sun, is the centre of our system; and the noon-day effulgence in which we live and move symbolizes that other effulgence which is found in knowledge.

I name two only: first, the printing-press; and, secondly, the means of intercommunication, whether by navigation or railways, represented by the steam-engine.

Here is what Greece and Rome never knew, and more than Greece and Rome have contributed to man.

We can better spare Greece and Rome than the printing-press and steam-engine.

Not a triumph in literature, art, or jurisprudence, from the story of Homer and the odes of Horace to the statue of Apollo and the bust of Augustus, from the eloquence of Demosthenes and Cicero to that Roman Law which has become the law of…

Through these incomparable agencies is knowledge made coextensive with space and time on earth.

Thus every achievement in thought or science, every discovery by which Man is elevated, becomes the common property of the whole Human Family.