This consideration was the first which removed my objection on this head.

That there can be no ground for any charge of ostentation, as far as the origin of this history is concerned, so I hope to convince him there, can be none, by showing him in what light I have always viewed myself in connexion with the committee, to which I have had the honour to belong.
I have uniformly considered our committee for the abolition of the Slave Trade; as we usually consider the human body, that is, as made up of a head and of various members which had different offices to perform.
Thus, if one man was an eye, another was an ear, another an arm, and another a foot.

And here I may say, with great truth, that I believe no committee was ever made up of persons, whose varied talents were better adapted to the work before them.

Viewing then the committee in this light, and myself as in connexion with it, I may deduce those truths, with which the analogy will furnish me.

And first, it will follow, that if every member has performed his office faithfully, though one may have done something more than another, yet no one of them in particular has any reason to boast.