Caloric, gravitation, expansibility, compressibility, electricity, chemical affinities and repulsions, spontaneous velocities,--these are the mighty agents which the intellect of man harnesses to the car of improvement.
Mann lists various natural forces that humans utilize for advancement, emphasizing the role of intellect in improvement.
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Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?
The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.
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