LESSON VI.—Quotations from the sacred authors of the use of the Hebrew verb signifying _to slave_, or _to be slaves_ to, 610, 611; identity of welfare and interest between the slave and his master, 612, 613. LESSON VII.—The two distinct eras in the Hebrew language; its approximation to the Chaldaic and Persian in the second era, 613 to 615. LESSON VIII.—Meaning attached to the Hebrew word signifying _slave_ by Ezra, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, and other prophets, 616 to 618. LESSON IX.—The use of the Hebrew word meaning slave in the book of Genesis, and extract from the Rev. J.B. Stratton’s letter to the author on the same, 618 to 620; the word _Eden_ in the Arabic, 620, 621; the Hebrew word meaning _tilleth_, 622. LESSON X.—The laws of Moses in Deuteronomy respecting slavery, 623. LESSON XI.—The Hebrew use of the word meaning _slaves_ in Samuel, and many other books of the Bible, 624 to 627. LESSON XII.—Declension of the Hebrew noun meaning _slave_, and the conjugation and paradigms of the Hebrew verb signifying _to slave_, 628 to 637. ------------------------------------ STUDIES ON SLAVERY. ------------------------------------ Study I. ------------------ LESSON I. “_The Elements of Moral Science: By_ FRANCIS WAYLAND, D.D., _President of Brown University, and Professor of Moral Philosophy. Fortieth Thousand. Boston, 1849._” Pp. 396. THIS author informs us that he has been many years preparing the work, with a view to furnish his pupils with a text-book free from the errors of Paley. Like Paley, whom he evidently wishes to supersede, he has devoted a portion of his strength to the abolition of slavery. We propose to look into the book with an eye to that subject alone. President Wayland says: P. 24. “Moral Law is a form of expression denoting an order of sequence established between the moral quality of actions and their results.” Pp. 25, 26. “An order of sequence established, supposes, of necessity, an Establisher. Hence Moral Philosophy, as well as every other science, proceeds upon the supposition of the existence of a Universal Cause, the Creator of all things, who has made every thing as it is, and who has subjected all things to the relations which they sustain. And hence, as all relations, whether moral or physical, are the result of his enactment, an order of sequence once discovered in morals, is just as inviolable as an order of sequence in physics. “Such being the fact, it is evident that the moral laws of God can never be varied by the institutions of man, any more than the physical laws. The results which God has connected with actions will inevitably occur, all the created power in the universe to the contrary notwithstanding.