[The Monikins by J. Fenimore Cooper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Monikins CHAPTER VIII 12/16
Perhaps it might be well to purchase samples of lots from all the different stocks in market. In reply I assented to the latter idea, suggesting the expediency of getting one or two of the higher castes from the north; I had no objection to preaching provided they preached work; but I cautioned the overseer particularly against schismatics.
Preaching, in the abstract, could do no harm; all depending on doctrine. This advice was given as the result of much earnest observation.
Those European states that had the most obstinately resisted the introduction of letters, I had recently had occasion to remark were changing their systems, and were about to act on the principle of causing "fire to fight fire." They were fast having recourse to school-books, using no other precaution than the simple expedient of writing them themselves. By this ingenious invention poison was converted into food, and truths of all classes were at once put above the dangers of disputations and heresies. Having disposed of the Louisianian, I very gladly turned to the opening of the sixth seal.
The letter was from the efficient trustee of a company to whose funds I had largely contributed by way of making an investment in charity.
It had struck me, a short time previously to quitting home, that interests positive as most of those I had embarked in had a tendency to render the spirit worldly; and I saw no other check to such an evil than by seeking for some association with the saints, in order to set up a balance against the dangerous propensity. A lucky occasion offered through the wants of the Philo-African-anti-compulsion-free-labor Society, whose meritorious efforts were about to cease for the want of the great charity-power--gold.
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