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塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯:自助论·摘录 177
塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯《自助论》· Self-Help · 领导
It is unnecessary further to follow the career of Granville Sharp. He continued to labour indefatigably in all good works. He was instrumental in founding the colony of Sierra Leone as an asylum for rescued negroes. He laboured to ameliorate the condition of the native Indians in the American colonies. He agitated the enlargement and extension of the political rights of the English people; and he endeavoured to effect the abolition of the impressment of seamen. Granville held that the British seamen, as well as the African negro, was entitled to the protection of the law; and that the fact of his choosing a seafaring life did not in any way cancel his rights and privileges as an Englishman—first amongst which he ranked personal freedom. Mr. Sharp also laboured, but ineffectually, to restore amity between England and her colonies in America; and when the fratricidal war of the American Revolution was entered on, his sense of integrity was so scrupulous that, resolving not in any way to be concerned in so unnatural a business, he resigned his situation at the Ordnance Office.
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格兰维尔·夏普继续不知疲倦地从事各种善举。他推动建立了塞拉利昂殖民地,作为获救黑人的庇护所;努力改善美洲殖民地印第安人的处境;鼓动扩大英国人民的政治权利;还试图废除强征水兵的做法。他认为,英国水手和非洲黑人一样,都应受法律保护,选择航海生活并不剥夺他作为英国人的权利,其中首要的是人身自由。他还努力恢复英国与美洲殖民地的友好关系,但未成功。当美国独立战争爆发时,他因道德感极强,不愿卷入这场不自然的战争,辞去了军械局的职务。
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