"If love does not rush to deeds of virtue, recourse must be had to man's intellect and his reason must be quickened to convince him of the necessity of acting aright. The same is true of any other moral obligation. The instant Duty becomes onerous; Right Reason steps in to present our shirking it." ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiGbhWkCHyg
"To know what we want in education we must know what we want in general: we must derive our theory of education from our philosophy of life. The problem turns out to be a religious one."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MzxUUfEtE
"Mother is happy in turning a crank that increases the balance in somebody's bank; and I feel satisfaction that mother is free from the sinister task of attending to me..."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_or-nVDrfY
This is from the edited volume, From Under the Rubble.
"Why is this rebirth taking place in our country, where Christianity is attacked particularly systematically and with great brutality, while the rest of the world suffers a general decline in faith and religious feeling? Once again our history over the last fifty years provides a clue to one of the reasons. We have passed through such bottomless pits, we have been so exposed to all the winds of Kolyma, we have experienced such utter exhaustion of human resources that we have learned to see the 'one essential' that cannot be taken away from man, and we have learned not to look to human resources for succor. In glorious destitution, in utter defenselessness in the face of suffering, our hearts have been kindled by an inner spiritual warmth and have opened to new, unexpected impulses."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAPDdYPsuIM
Syzmonbaranowski8184 asked for more details on American regions and perspectives, and this is my response.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_AubGEwRk
"While the quality of medical care was poor by modern standards, there is no evidence of exploitation in the medical care typically provided for plantation slaves."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtnnhH7-DcI
"There was nothing exceptional about the use of whipping to enforce discipline among slaves until the beginning of the nineteenth century. It must be remembered that through the centuries whipping was considered a fully acceptable form of punishment, not merely for criminals but also for honest men or women who in some way shirked their duties. Whipping of wives, for example, was even sanctified in some versions of scripture... During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries whipping was commonly employed as a punishment in the North as well as in the South. Not until the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century did whipping rapidly fall from favor in the free states."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L65nIwgWA9Q
Chapter 5 of The Rise and Fall of the Plantation South
"The Brazilian planter lived as a patriarch, being to his big 'family' everything short of God: master, mentor, banker, administrator, tyrant, father... At its best, life there was calm and harmonious, lavish and luxurious, founded on the rhythm of agriculture. The medieval system of 'open house' was usual among Brazilian planters, as well as wasteful economics. Indeed, Brazilian planters lived so luxuriously as to cause foreigners to wonder..."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fq_By-Uc_A