Even Aristotle could not conceive the idea of a society existing without slavery.

In modern times slavery has continued to our own day without causing many scruples among the planters.

Armies have served as the instruments of grand conquests--that is to say, of grand spoliations.

Is this saying that they are not composed of officers and men as sensitive of their honor, even more so, perhaps, than men in ordinary industrial pursuits--men who would blush at the very thought of theft, and who would face a thousand deaths rather than stoop to a base action?
It is not individuals who are to blame, but the general movement of opinion which deludes and deceives them--a movement for which society in general is culpable.
Thus is it with monopoly.

I accuse the system, and not individuals; society as a mass, and not this or that one of its members.