Excerpt from Right and Wrong: Relating to Literal Ethics and a Popular Form of Government Showing Americans? The dictionary also bears witness against itself, that the teaching of morality is impossible, from the necessity of the studied deception, to disguise the iniquity of teachers who posed as examples of honesty and virtue in their defence of human bondage. This book appeals to all persons who possess any feeling of charity toward the silent masses of humanity, and for no other reason than the lack of a simple method of expression, they are charged by the more literally learned with a natural depravity because of a disposition to wickedness. The proof of it would seem to be that the more learned could not resist the tempting power of wickedness, by taking an advantage of ignorance, to evade the common necessity of work. Therefore, all literal ethics that embrace the authority to teach, are based upon a traditional inheritance that man is born depraved. If this is so what hope can there be, when the learned derive their power from the defence of a fraud? The force by which man is conceived is a state that can never be subordinate to a state which is constructed by the consciousness of this force. The confusion of this principle is recorded in Webster's dictionary, and if the learned of the present day will defend a book which was purposely prepared to make the precepts of the Bible subordinate to a specific version dependent upon the definition of words, the object is the same which prompted the double definition of words - to confound their meaning and justify the power of the learned to compel the inno cence of humanity to serve the passion of greed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.