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Excerpt from Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
The Supposed property of the master in the slave, therefore, is matter (if usurpation, not of righ' It may be possible to deduce, from these few adages, such a theory of the primitive rights of human nature as will evince the illegality of sla very; but surely-an author requires too much of his reader, when he ex peets him to make these deductions for himself or to supply, perhaps from some remote chapter of the same treatise, the several proofs and explana tions which are necessary to render the meaning and truth of these asser tions intelligible.
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