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→Quotes: Abolition of slavery consistent with Christian principles
<blockquote>"The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. ... Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers."</blockquote>
<blockquote>"The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. ... Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers."</blockquote>
He also believed that abolishing slavery was consistent with Christian principles:
<blockquote>"Domestic slavery is repugnant to the principles of Christianity. It prostrates every benevolent and just principle of action in the human heart. It is rebellion against the authority of a common Father. It is a practical denial of the extent and efficacy of the death of a common Saviour. It is an usurpation of the prerogative of the Great Sovereign of the Universe, who has solemnly claimed an exclusive property in the souls of men.<br />
But if this view of the enormity of the evil of domestic slavery should not affect us, there is one consideration more which ought to alarm and impress us, especially at the present juncture.<br />
It is a violation of a divine precept of universal justice which has in no instance escaped with impunity."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=QnITAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA51 An historical memoir of the Pennsylvania Society: for promoting the abolition of slavery; the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race]</ref></blockquote>
== References ==
== References ==