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Excerpt from The Evolution of Governments and Laws, Exhibiting the Governmental Structures, of Ancient and Modern States, Their, Growth and Decay and the Leading, Principles of Their Laws, Vol. 1
In Mohammedan countries the Koran's precepts allow poly gamy, and far worse than this, command the propagation of religion by war, the most immoral of all concerted efforts of men. The errors and falsehoods Of the Koran are taught as divine revelation, and all inquiry tending to replace them With truth is stifled.
Throughout all the history of Rome slavery was recognized and the machinery of the government was employed to en force the dominion of the masters. Much of the learning of the great jurists consists in rules governing the relations of masters and their slaves, and determining the status of persons as citizens, coloni, freedmen and slaves. Even in our own land, within the memory of the writer and those of his genera tion, slavery was the most important institution in nearly one half of the Republic. No law can be a greater departure from the moral law than that which sanctions slavery and allows one man to compel another to serve him according to his arbitrary Will and take all the proceeds of his labor to use as he pleases. Nothing can better illustrate the tendency to depart from the moral law in framing human laws than the history Of the law of slavery. The feudal system of land tenure after the decline of the Roman Empire worked out results similar to slavery.
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