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THE REV. DAVID THOMAS, D.D., ON FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND HIS WORK

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animals was a rare object. The grand mission of Christianity, as I understand it, is to
convert the fleshly into the spiritual, the selfish into the generous, and thus all human
animals into men. This book contains a man--not a man's portrait, but a man's
self--breathing and thinking, weeping and rejoicing, praying and lecturing, hurling
fulminations at the wrong. and smiling benedictions on the right. Truly Frederick
Douglass is a grand man.
"Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, this was a man."
Shakespeare.
DAVID THOMAS.
EREWYN. UPPER TULSE HILL,
Feb. 24th, 1882.