"In general the faculties of the mind must be expanded to a certain degree, before religion will take root, or flourish among a people; and a certain proportion of civil liberty is necessary, on which to found that expansion of the mind, which moral or religious liberty requires."
An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies
James Ramsay, <u>An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies</u> (London: printed and sold by James Phillips, 1784). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=CMINAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;