Some people seem to think that, in the good
time coming, it is as though we should dwell out-of-doors, among flowers
and fruits, with few wants, these being supplied by the spontaneous
offerings of nature.
Others, however, suppose that we shall still need some to shovel, take
care of horses, work over the fire the greater part of the day in
preparing food, go of errands, and, in short, be a serving class. They
suppose that the same sovereign God which distributes instincts, and
wisdom, variously, to animals, and gifts of understanding to men, will,
in the same sovereign way, create men and women with such degrees of
capacity and susceptibility as will lead inevitably to their being
superiors and inferiors, and that this will be, as it is now where love
and kindness reign, the source of the greatest happiness to all
concerned.
This being so, none of us will venture to say that no one of the
existing races of men will, to the end of time, be of such gentle,
dependent natures as to find their highest happiness and welfare in
being, generally, in the capacity of servants. Some of all races, we do
not object, may be servants to the end of time. No one will say to his
Maker that it will be unjust for Him to put a whole race of men forever
in that serving condition, making them, according to their capacity,
most happy in being so.
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