Our word grandson being in French, petit fils, (little son.)] Even if the Africans were the descendants of Canaan, the assumption that their enslavement is a fulfilment of this prophecy, lacks even plausibility, for, only a mere fraction of the inhabitants of Africa have at any one time been the slaves of other nations.

The enslavement of his weaker brethren"the labour of those who do not enjoy, for the enjoyment of those who do not labour"the degradation of womanthe torture of the animal worldthese are the steps of the ladder by which man is ascending to his higher civilisation.