He says that there can be no high civilization.... : Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“ He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an animal nature; and a higher one thereby acquires leisure and wealth for a more expanded intelligence and improvement, and becomes the directing soul of the lower. So he reasons, because, as I said, he is born an aristocrat;—so I don't believe, because I was born a democrat. ”

Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • From : Uncle Tom's Cabin
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