Chapter 1501 Nature and Code

   In the lobby on the first floor of the Burgundy Mansion, Belle is performing a dance in music full of "Oriental" sentiment.

   Belly dancing is a traditional Egyptian dance. Appreciating belly dancing is a part of daily life for Mamluks. Georgian can't stop them. Not to mention Belle's dress is conservative and the dance is not so tempting.

All in all, they also have their own lives. When they were in Egypt, Napoleon’s soldiers also wrote and performed operas. After saving the girl who was abused by her father, she gave back to the French soldiers the gold and silver jewelry filled with military caps. What a "creative" idea.

  The married man is not the same as the unmarried man. It happens that there are many unmarried women in the country. Georgiana has an idea in her heart, and she plans to find a time to organize a dance party to see if she can get a couple of marriages.

  Two days ago, she received an invitation from the French Institute of Humanities and Political Science to attend a debate about slavery and human inequality. Reminiscent of the morning dream of going to the guillotine, a strong instinct told her not to go!

But just as Napoleon said to the German Emperor Franz when he signed the "Treaty of Campoformio", "We kill each other, and the result is only to make the British sugar and coffee more expensive." The slave trade is not wiped out in British history. Go to the stain.

  France also had a slave trade, but it withdrew after the defeat of the Spanish Throne War. Digomier has already said the benefits of slavery, but Montesquieu believes that slavery is not good for mankind.

  As long as it is labor dominated by reason and not greed, it will never be too hard for people to support. The invention of human technology or the application of machinery brings convenience and saves manpower. During the Civil War, the industrial level of the North of the United States was higher than that of the South. Although the Southern Army had the advantage at first, the Northern Army released the slaves and changed the nature of the war. This not only increased the military power of the North, but also collapsed. The plantation economy of the South.

  Slavery will make a nation arrogant and prosperous. There were many slaves in the late Roman Empire. At that time, the nobles lived upside-down lives. The fall of Rome was also related to the slave uprising.

The Athenians were very tolerant to slaves. When the Spartans were upset by the slaves, Athens was safe. It can be seen that it happened when the Romans lost their humane sentiment to slaves. It can be compared with war. Civil war.

  When morality begins to fall, slavery becomes a tool for slave owners to show off their luxury and arrogance. These cruel masters living among slaves are like living among enemies. As a result, the Roman Senate issued some laws. If a master is killed, all slaves living in the master’s house and all slaves nearby who can cry for help will be executed. In this case, they will hide for rescue purposes. Otherwise, it can be punished as murder.

  At this time, the Roman law had become a wicked law. Even if the slave owner was so cruel that he nailed the slave’s ear to the pillar as punishment for the slave’s laziness, the law still maintained the interests of the slave owner rather than justice. Things like Rochambeau’s dog-biting and cannibalism have become commonplace. Maybe a Colosseum will be built to perform the execution of executed prisoners for audiences who have bought tickets.

  Some people think that public execution will make people feel the majesty and horror of the law, so that they dare not try the law with their own lives. In fact, even the bloodless hanging will make the "audience" cheer, let alone beheaded.

  In the vast darkness, we can recognize which is brighter, among the many abysses, we can recognize which abyss is shallower.

But remember, when you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you. Just look at the profits of 11% and 5.6%, and care about the gains and losses of profits. The person staring at the abyss will become a monster without knowing it. .

  In the laws of ancient Egypt, even if the person who killed the slave was a slave owner, he must be put to death if he killed the slave. Slaves are not citizens, but they are humans and cannot use 114 shillings as compensation.

  This is the basis for Georgiana’s preparation for the debate. If she is asked, she will say so, provided that someone will ask her, who calls her a maiden.

  She left Belle, letting Matilda and Figue accompany herself to the French Academy. It’s not far from the Burgundy Mansion, passing by the bridgehead of the New Bridge, and it’s a ten-minute walk. Although the conference can't do major things, the purpose of this conference was originally a debate, and it was not a three-level parliament.

Georgiana has no place among the professors, even though she is always called a "professor" in school, a staff member led her to a small room next to the conference hall, which was originally a reception room or a lounge, but now it is inside. Put a chair, there is a curtain at the door, it looks like a curtain to listen to politics.

  The scholars outside who were discussing in low voices seemed to have seen her appear, and stopped talking one after another, and the venue soon became quiet.

The host on the forum knocked the wooden hammer. "The topic of today’s debate is related to the United States’ Declaration of Human Rights. The declaration of human rights does not include slaves from Africa. The pro-slavery apologists in the southern United States believe that, It is impossible to be born equal and born to be free. Human beings have never been and will not be born free now and in the future. Where is the freedom of infants? No two are born or will be equal to each other in the future. Their bodies will be equally strong, capable of the same level, and born with the same ambitions and opportunities? If they are not born free, and the two are born equal, isn't this closer to the truth? They are born out of helplessness The state of being dependent on others, having wealth and being trapped in poverty, famous or unknown, strong or weak, knowledgeable or ignorant, beautiful or ugly, powerful or under the control of others, constitutes the infinite diversity of human society, and is restricted by others. Only in infancy, in all ages, those who have the ability and knowledge have superior power and should dominate and control those inferior people. This is the order of nature and God. Humans should enslaved each other, just like other animals. The same as hunting."

   "We are humans, not animals!" someone shouted from the platform.

  "Natural inequality has caused inequality of power. Would you let a person with a natural intellectual impairment sit in your place?" Someone said from the forum.

  Georgianna finds it very interesting. Petunia must be in a complicated mood. She and Lily are the same parents. Why can Lily be a wizard, but she is a Muggle? The difference between them is decided at birth?

  Jealousy made her ugly, but she still couldn't help being jealous.

  Why can Lily get everything? Even dying early became a good thing, because she was remembered in many people's hearts.

  She laughed. No wonder that Veeva is classified as a beast. Where does she think there is a bit of humanity?

"If you allow this inequality to continue to exist, you will be no different from the primitive people who occupy other people's fruits and caves. This is animality that obeys primitive desires. People should know how to restrain and be rational, and understand their roles in the social division of labor. , Like hunting, it is mutual cooperation rather than slavery!"

  "The lion king first enjoys the prey captured by the lion group. The society is an existence. Everyone is a member of this existence. The individual's power needs to be surrendered to the whole..."

   "Let you be a slave, would you like to?" Someone from the forum shouted with anger, "Will you come down from a prominent position high above and work in the ridge?"

  "We have gone through a difficult process to get to this point." The host said, "Please calmly discuss, gentlemen, this is the French Academy, not the National Convention."

  The venue is silent.

   "Does it interesting?" Georgiana asked Matilda and Figl.

  Matilda stared at Georgiana in a daze. Figl kept staring at the meeting place, unable to see what she was thinking.

  Georgiana shrugged and made up her mind that next time she would take Belle with her.

  (End of this chapter)