CHAPTER XV.

DIFFICULTIES WHICH CHRISTIANITY HAD TO OVERCOME IN THE WORK OF SOCIAL REGENERATION--SLAVERY--COULD IT HAVE BEEN DESTROYED MORE SPEEDILY THAN IT WAS BY CHRISTIANITY?

The Church was not only a great and productive school, but she was also a regenerating association--What she had to do--Difficulties which she had to overcome--Slavery--By whom was it abolished?--Opinion of M. Guizot--Immense number of the slaves--Caution necessary in the abolition of slavery--Was immediate abolition possible?--Refutation of the opinion of M. Guizot, 90