黑奴吁天录

心中有国事，手下无翻译腔

chapter xvi. tom’s mistress and her opinions if ever africa shall show an elevated and cultivated race,——and come it must, some time, her turn to figure in the drama of human improvement,——life will awake here with a gorgeousness and splendor of which our cold western tribes faintly have conceived. in that far-off mystic land of gold, and gems, and spices, and waving palms, and wondrous flowers, and miraculous fertility, will awake new forms of art, new styles of splendor and the negro race, and no longer despised and trodden down, will perhaps, show forth some of the latest and most magnificent revelations of human life. certainly they will, in their gentleness, their lowly docility of heart, their aptitude to repose on a superior mind and rest on a higher power, their childlike simpicity of affection, and facility of forgiveness. in all these they will exhibit the highest form of the peculiarly christian life, and, perhaps, god chansteneth whom he loveth, he has chosen poor africa in the furnace of affliction, to make her the highest and noblest in that kingdom which he will set up, when every other kingdom has been tried, and failed for the first shall be last, and the last first. 脱此阿非利加黑种之人，能产一奇杰之男子，则其文明进步，诚于世界大有关系。况其地所产，均金钻宝石，富甲诸洲。设彼能自振作，将来成一繁华都会，正非泰西人所能梦见，较诸今日服人鞭策之下，岂不亦为世界上最高等之人？矧黑人性质，有过绝于人者，脱令夜黑路歧俯仰失措之际，勿论款何黑人之扉，均以礼延接。以此推之，异日世界大同之会，起点必自此种人矣！