We have fully and fearfully illustrated the truth of the Apostle ’s declaration: ‘Knowledge puffeth up.’ We have indeed been puffed up, vaunting ourselves in our mental endowments and national greatness.
Grimké reflects on the dangers of pride in intellectual achievements without moral grounding.
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The more the subject of slavery is agitated, the better.
O! the deep, DEEP injury which such unfaithful ministers have inflicted on the South!
What kind of religion did the North prepare them to preach?
The fact is, the South is enraged, because we have exposed her horrible hypocrisy to the world.