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institution of the Patria Potestas, to which the immemorial Patriarchalism (as it has been termed), or Family Organization of Chinese Society, closely corresponds. "The Adoption of the old Romans, and of the Chinese of the present day who still adhere to the laws and customs followed by their ancestors more than two thousand years ago, have been confounded by persons who look to superficial and apparent rather than to intrinsic and real resemblances and analogies, with Slavery in the modern and technical sense of that word. But all who have mastered this question know that the Adoption and Domestic Service of the Chinese, are derived from the primitive and patriarchal institution of the Patria Potestas; whereas the modern Slavery of the Negroes and of other coloured peoples, is founded on the theory of the old Greek Philosophers, who, in view of the supposed real or intellectual inferiority of certain races of mankind, laid down the doctrine

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143 institution of the Patria Potestas, to which the immemorial Patriarchalism (as it has been termed), or Family Organization of Chinese Society, closely corresponds. "The Adoption of the old Romans, and of the Chinese of the present day who still adhere to the laws and customs followed by their ancestors more than two thousand years ago, have been confounded by persons who look to superficial and apparent rather than to intrinsic and real resemblances and analogies, with Slavery in the modern and technical sense of that word. But all who have mastered this question know that the Adoption and Domestic Service of the Chinese, are derived from the primitive and patriarchal institution of the Patria Potestas; whereas the modern Slavery of the Negroes and of other coloured peoples, is founded on the theory of the old Greek Philosophers, who, in view of the supposed real or intellectual inferiority of certain races of mankind, laid down the doctrine
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institution of the Vatria Potestas, to which the immemorial Patriarchalism.

so

(as it has been termed), or Family Organization of Chinese, Society, closely corresponds. "The Adoption of a. the old Romans, and of the Chinese of the present day who still adhere to the laws and sustoms followed

by their ancestors more than two

thousand

have been

years ago,

confounded by persons who look to superficial and apparent rather than to intrinsie and real

resemblances and analogies, with

Slavery

Slavery,

in the modern and technical

sense of that word. But all who have mastered this question know that the Adoption and Domestic -Service of the Chinese, are derived from the primitive and patriarchal. institution of the Patria Potestas;

whereas the modern Slavery of the

Negroes and of other coloured peoples, is founded

the theory

of the old Greek Philosophers, who,

in view

supposed -

su

of the real or intellectual inferiority of certain

races of mankind, laid down the

dostrine

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