 | James Anthony Froude - Black people - 1888 - 362 pages
...' The curse is taken off from nature, and like Adam again they are under the covenant of innocence. Morals in the technical sense they have none, but...said to sin, because they have no knowledge of a law, and therefore they can commit no breach of the law. They are naked and not ashamed. They are married... | |
 | Charles Spencer Salmon - Black people - 1888 - 202 pages
...system is strange, but K answers. . . . There is evil, but there is not the demoralising effect of pril. They sin, but they sin only as animals, without shame, because there » no sense of doing wrong. They eat the forbidden fruit, but it brings pith it no knowledge of the... | |
 | American Economic Association - Economic history - 1896 - 476 pages
...years later James Anthony Froude wrote of the negro in the West Indies in the folllowing severe terms : "Morals in the technical sense they have none, but...said to sin, because they have no knowledge of a law and therefore cannot commit a breach of the law. They are naked and not ashamed. They are married,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1900 - 604 pages
...fertile. The curse is taken off from nature, and like Adam again they are under the covenant of innocence. Morals in the technical sense they have none, but they cannot be said to sin, because they have no knowl- \r edge of a law, and therefore they can commit no breach of the law. They are naked and not... | |
 | Puerto Rico - 1900 - 360 pages
...strange, but it answers. » * » There is evil, but there is not the demoralizing eft'ect of evil. They sin, but they sin only as animals, without shame, because there is no sense of doing wrong. They eat the forbidden fruit, but it brings with it no knowledge of the difference between good and... | |
 | Simon Gikandi - Education - 1996 - 298 pages
...atavism: The curse is taken off nature, and like Adam again they arc under the covenant of innocence. Morals in the technical sense they have none, but...said to sin, because they have no knowledge of a law, and therefore they can commit no breach of the law. They are naked and not ashamed. (49) Two rhetorical... | |
 | Eileen Findlay - History - 1999 - 332 pages
...marrying.22 This alleged dissoluteness marked plebeian Puerto Ricans as childish or even prehuman. "They sin, but they sin only as animals, without shame, because there is no sense of doing wrong. . . . They are innocently happy in the unconsciousness of the obligations of morality. They eat, drink,... | |
 | David Griffith, Manuel Valdes Pizzini - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 286 pages
...system is strange, but it answers. . . . There is evil, but there is not the demoralizing effect of evil They sin, but they sin only as animals, without shame, because there is no sense of doing wrong. They eat forbidden fruit, but it brings with it no knowledge of the difference between good and evil... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 2004 - 684 pages
...the latter. Froude tells us in 1888: There is evil, but there is not the demoralizing effect of evil. They sin, but they sin only as animals, without shame, because there is no sense of doing wrong. They eat the forbidden fruit, but it brings with it no knowledge of the difference between good and... | |
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The curse is taken off from nature, and like Adam again they are under the covenant of innocence. Morals in the technical sense they have none, but they cannot be said to sin, because they have no knowledge of a law, and therefore they can commit no breach... 