Archive for May 14, 2007

What Next?

 

On March 25, 1807 King George III signed into law the abolition of the slave trade for the entire British Empire, the climax of a 20-year struggle by a handful of dedicated men and women to bring a nation to awareness of its own atrocity. When William Wilberforce got the news, he turned to his cousin Henry Thornton and asked riley, “Well Henry, What shall we abolish next?” His reply: “The lottery, I think.”

Source: Bury the Chains, last pages of Chapter 21.

(Might I suggest that there is either a moral law that links it all together, or there is no basis at all for morality.)

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