 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - 2001 - 314 pagine
...be the source of violence—the orangutan only the agent he has set in motion. Jefferson had noted: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From the cradle to the grave he is learning to do... | |
 | E. M. Halliday - 2009 - 306 pagine
...surprise at his vehemence against the system in such a passage as this from his Notes on Virginia: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...Our children see this, and learn to imitate it... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the... | |
 | Thomas G. West - 1997 - 244 pagine
...famous passage in Notes on Virginia, agreed that slavery promotes antidemocratic habits and principles: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...the one part, and degrading submissions on the other . . . The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 316 pagine
...corrupted white Americans. At first glance, it seems that he had some concern for the slave. Thus he wrote: "[T]he whole commerce between master and slave is...one part, and degrading submissions on the other." This sentence suggests that Jefferson may have been concerned about the effect of slavery on the slave.... | |
 | James W. Clarke - 362 pagine
...the most boisterous passions — the most unremitting despotism on one part, and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it, for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do... | |
 | Paul C. Metcalf - 2002 - 290 pagine
...Thomas Jefferson, writing in i785: There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among...learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. . . . The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs... | |
 | John T. Noonan - 2002 - 236 pagine
...preceded by one both social and personal, cast in terms of Jefferson's most prized value, education: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...learn to imitate it, for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him . . . The man must be a prodigy who can retain his... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 pagine
...our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion. Query XVII, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781 The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual...learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pagine
...both for its degradation of the slave and its encouragement of callousness and cruelty in the master: "The whole commerce between master and slave is a...one part, and degrading submissions on the other." He held that "nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be... | |
 | Stephen E. Ambrose - 2002 - 289 pagine
...commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous pasTO AMERICA 3 sions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and...other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance... | |
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. 
