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the plantation , he worried me for along time , and then struck me . This was what I wanted , and , having a heavy wooden instrument ih . my hand , I knocked him down and beat him well . When I had finished he went in great wrath to Seilor Antonio , who ordered me to be sent to Port Villegagnon to be flogged . The rest you know as well as I do . "
A day or two after the events mentioned in this chapter had taken place , I met Jose de Coelho , whose face wore a serious expression . He had come to caution me , he said , against their overseer , who was so much incensed at my liberation of the slave whom he had sworn to punish , that he vowed vengeance upon me . Jose did not at all know what steps the overseer meant to take , and could only warn me to be vigilant . I therefore carried a life-preserver about with me , not having any expectation of what was to follow .
Darkle and I were speedily reconciled . He saw that , although I was a Freemason , and consequently , as he expressed it , nearly a man , yet I should be more useful to him than many others whom he might employ ; and it was settled that , as I was now tolerably proficient in Portuguese , I should soon go down to one of the villages as his factor . ( To be continued . )
Voices From Dead Nations.
VOICES EKOM DEAD NATIONS .
BY KENNETH R . H . MACKENZIE , F . S . A ., Ph . D . lOTROBUCTOBY .
" Kind words awaken kind echoes . " It is proposed to present some exposition of the primary developments of what has happily been named Sociology , * amidst the more
ancient nations of the world , whose architectural and historical remains attest the wonderful activity and versatility of the human mind , and Who , long concealed behind the veil of Isis , or buried beneath the mounds of Assyria , are now coming forth into fall light , to add their testimony to the wonderful goodness and mercy of the Creator of all . It will be here attempted , without a desire to supersede special treatises on the various topics it will be necessary
to handle , to arrive at the intyer spirit , and , to some extent , the home life , of these nations ; to connect and contrast them with our own times ; to exhibit the relations of the poor and the rich , the father and the son , the husband and the wife , the master and the slave , the governor and the governed ; and to demonstrate the identity of the law of human progress and the uniformity of the Divine Government . * By Auguste Comte , throughout hia philosophical works , as well as by John Stuart Mill .
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the plantation , he worried me for along time , and then struck me . This was what I wanted , and , having a heavy wooden instrument ih . my hand , I knocked him down and beat him well . When I had finished he went in great wrath to Seilor Antonio , who ordered me to be sent to Port Villegagnon to be flogged . The rest you know as well as I do . "
A day or two after the events mentioned in this chapter had taken place , I met Jose de Coelho , whose face wore a serious expression . He had come to caution me , he said , against their overseer , who was so much incensed at my liberation of the slave whom he had sworn to punish , that he vowed vengeance upon me . Jose did not at all know what steps the overseer meant to take , and could only warn me to be vigilant . I therefore carried a life-preserver about with me , not having any expectation of what was to follow .
Darkle and I were speedily reconciled . He saw that , although I was a Freemason , and consequently , as he expressed it , nearly a man , yet I should be more useful to him than many others whom he might employ ; and it was settled that , as I was now tolerably proficient in Portuguese , I should soon go down to one of the villages as his factor . ( To be continued . )
Voices From Dead Nations.
VOICES EKOM DEAD NATIONS .
BY KENNETH R . H . MACKENZIE , F . S . A ., Ph . D . lOTROBUCTOBY .
" Kind words awaken kind echoes . " It is proposed to present some exposition of the primary developments of what has happily been named Sociology , * amidst the more
ancient nations of the world , whose architectural and historical remains attest the wonderful activity and versatility of the human mind , and Who , long concealed behind the veil of Isis , or buried beneath the mounds of Assyria , are now coming forth into fall light , to add their testimony to the wonderful goodness and mercy of the Creator of all . It will be here attempted , without a desire to supersede special treatises on the various topics it will be necessary
to handle , to arrive at the intyer spirit , and , to some extent , the home life , of these nations ; to connect and contrast them with our own times ; to exhibit the relations of the poor and the rich , the father and the son , the husband and the wife , the master and the slave , the governor and the governed ; and to demonstrate the identity of the law of human progress and the uniformity of the Divine Government . * By Auguste Comte , throughout hia philosophical works , as well as by John Stuart Mill .