No one denies this.

What if one who was rebuked for carrying an open lamp into the magazine of a ship, should reproach the captain with being 'an enemy to the light,' and as 'loving darkness rather than light' ?" "'While at the North,' said he, 'I read Mr.Buckle on civilization, and I reflected upon the subject.

Being in a great assembly, once or twice, listening to abolitionist orators, lay and clerical, and hearing their vile assaults on personal character, their vulgar and reckless ridicule of fifteen States of our Union, their affected, oracular way of saying the most trite things as though they were aphorisms, but reminding me of the piles of short stuff which you see round a saw-mill, and hearing the great throng applaud and shout, I asked myself whether we have really made any decided advances in civilization since the Hebrew Commonwealth.
I really doubted whether those orators could have collected an audience of Hebrews even in the wilderness.

Under the "Judges," the people were, at times, low enough to enjoy such drivelling.

The willingness at the North to hear these men, and to applaud them, gave me a low idea of the state of society.' "'But,' said I, 'confess now that you found specimens of cultivated life there such as you never saw surpassed.' "'I did,' said he, 'many times.