It commands good will towards men.

It enjoins us to love our neighbours as ourselves, and to do unto all men, as we would that they should do unto us.

And how can any man fulfil this scheme of universal benevolence, who reduces an unfortunate person _against his will_, to the _most insupportable_ of all human conditions; who considers him as his _private property_, and treats him, not as a brother, nor as one of the same parentage with himself, but as an _animal of the brute creation ?_ But the most important doctrine is that, by which we are assured that mankind are to exist in a future state, and to give an account of those actions, which they have severally done in the flesh.

This strikes at the very root of slavery.

For how can any man be justly called to an account for his actions, whose actions are not _at his own disposal ?_ This is the case with the _proper_[112] slave.