William Wilberforce: Frases en inglés
Close of a speech in House of Commons (1791), as quoted in Once Blind : The Life of John Newton (2008) by Kay Marshall Strom, p. 225.
Accepting the position of leader of the anti-slavery campaign.
William Wilberforce (2007)
Fuente: Real Christianity (1797), p. 342.
Contexto: In our own days, when it is but too clear that infidelity increases, it is not in consequence of the reasonings of the infidel writers having been much studied, but from the progress of luxury, and the decay of morals: and, so far as this increase may be traced at all to the works of sceptical writers; it has been produced, not by argument and discussion, but by sarcasms and points of wit, which have operated on weak minds, or on nominal Christians, by bringing gradually into contempt, opinions which, in their case, had only rested on the basis of blind respect and the prejudices of education. It may therefore be laid down as an axiom, that infidelity is in general a disease of the heart more than of the understanding. If Revelation were assailed only by reason and argument, it would have little to fear. The literary opposers of Christianity, from Herbert to Hume, have been seldom read. They made some stir in their day: during their span of existence they were noisy and noxious; but like the locusts of the east, which for a while obscure the air, and destroy the verdure, they were soon swept away and forgotten.' Their very names would be scarcely found, if Leland had not preserved them from oblivion.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 368.
Fuente: Real Christianity (1797), p. 240-243.
"On the Horrors of the Slave Trade", speech delivered in the House of Commons (12 May 1789).
morality
William Wilberforce (2007)
Variante: God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
Fuente: Real Christianity (1797), p. 257.
Fuente: Real Christianity (1797), p. 350.
Fuente: Real Christianity (1797), p. 237.
Speech before the House of Commons (18 April 1791).
Fuente: Real Christianity (1797), pp. 411–12