"In no state of society can a practice, involving in it circumstances of such atrocious and enormous guilt, be considered as defensible by any person whose understanding is not darkened by the turpitude of his heart; in whom not only the feelings of the moral sense are extinguished, but, in this instance at least, every ray even of common sense."
On the Slave Trade [from Essays, Philosophical, Historical, and Literary]
William Belsham, <u>Essays, Philosophical, Historical, and Literary</u> (London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1789). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Z6Y0AAAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;