Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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Identifikator:: 885228553

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-5127

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Author:: Greineder, Friedrich

Title:: Die Wirtschaft der deutschen Gaswerke

Place of publication:: München [u.a.]

Publisher:: R. Oldenbourg

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (60 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. Die Wirtschaft der deutschen Gaswerke pro 1912/13

Collection:: Economics Books

2, Benjamin Franklin [178 with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. The unhappy man, who has long been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the com- mon standard of the human species. The galling chains, that bind his body, do also fetter his intellec- tual faculties, and impair the social affections of his heart. Accustomed to move like a mere machine, by the will of a master, reflection is suspended; he has not the power of choice; and reason and conscience have but little influence over his conduct, because he is chiefly governed by the passion of fear. He is poor and friendless; perhaps worn out by extreme labor, age, and disease. Under such circumstances, freedom may often prove a misfortune to himself, and prejudicial to society. Attention to emancipated black people, it is there- fore to be hoped, will become a branch of our national policy; but, as far as we contribute to promote this emancipation, so far that attention is evidently a serious duty incumbent on us, and which we mean to discharge to the best of our judgment and abilities. To instruct, to advise, to qualify those who have been restored to freedom, for the exercise and enjoy- ment of civil liberty, to promote in them habits of industry, to furnish them with employments suited to their age, sex, talents, and other circumstances, and to procure their children an education calculated for their future situation in life; these are the great outlines of the annexed plan, which we have adopted, and which we conceive will essentially promote the BA

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