Metaxas' writing is fiercely metaphor-rich: "James Boawell was there that day... to visit the old Samuel Johnson, to whom he had affixed himself like a lamp Rey for life."
Fox "had led his aon astray, though to lead the Prince of Wales astray was like leading a hungry lion to a lame gazelle."
I have read that book, it is in my library now, almost within arms' reach. A powerful book about a powerful man. I believe it was Samuel Johnson who went to hear Wilberforce speak once, and witnessed a "minnow stand up and become a whale."
ReplyDeleteBefore Wilberforce, slavery was just part of the natural order of things, like rich and poor people. After Wilberforce, no one could view slavery the same way, and wherever it was found around the world, its time was dying. That it still exists in some places around the world attests to the hardness and wickedness of the human heart rather than any natural order of things.