Download or read book The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, 1864, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Thos. B. Thayer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, 1864, Vol. 1 Wrong has its conditions and methods as well as Right. It exists in its own atmosphere, obeys its own necessities and is ruled by its own instincts. And, so, when a giant barbar ism, its offspring and representative, found itself encircled by an advanced and still advancing Christian society, it could meet the exigency of its situation only in the spirit and by the meth ods of its own nature. Slavery in the United States and in the nineteenth century, pressed on all sides by the accumulat ing forces of an expanding and noble civilization, menaced, as it could but feel, by the peaceful but damaging, conquests which the energies of an enlightened free society were con stantly making, could deal with the circumstances which beset it, only in its own ways, and by its own instrumentalities. It could not be influenced by a wisdom higher than it knew, and from the recognition of which it was excluded by the essen tial conditions of its existence. Having its origin in falsehood, injustice and violence, it felt that it could expand and be strengthened, indeed that it could hold its own, only by such measures as these postulated; that in wrong alone it must live or bear no life. To expect from it a policy of truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.