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| 13 | 1187 | "She was View more quotes about once">once a primitive, brutish female, innocent of legalities but, in effect, owned. |
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| 13 | 1184 | Indeed, a natural civilization might be the natural flowering of nature itself, not an antithesis to nature, not a contradiction to nature, not a poison nor a trammel to it, but a stage or aspect of it, a form which nature itself can take". |
| 13 | 1185 | "I fear even to understand such thoughts," she said, "let alone consider whether or not they might be true". |
| 13 | 1186 | "Consider the case of the female slave," I said. |
| 13 | 1187 | "She was once a primitive, brutish female, innocent of legalities but, in effect, owned. |
| 13 | 1188 | She is now, commonly, a collared, embonded beauty, properly marked as merchandise, effectively displayed and marketed, and owned in the full right of law". |
| 13 | 1189 | "Yes, Master," said the girl. |
| 13 | 1190 | "Who can doubt but what here civilization, as nature's refinement or expression, has wrought an improvement?" "Surely, no one, Master," whispered the girl. |