This frequently gave me occasion to observe, and that with wonder, that however it had pleased God in His providence, and in the government of the works of His hands, to take from so great a part of the world of His creatures the best uses to which their faculties and the powers of their souls are adapted, yet that He has bestowed upon them the same powers, the same reason, the same affections, the same sentiments of kindness and obligation, the same passions and resentments of wrongs, the same sense of gratitude, sincerity, fidelity, and all the capacities of doing good and receiving good that He has given to us; and that when He pleases to offer them occasions of exerting these, they are as ready, nay, more ready, to apply them to the right uses for which they were bestowed than we are.
Esto me dio la oportunidad de reconocer con asombro que si Dios, en su providencia y gobierno de toda su creación, había decidido privar a tantas criaturas del buen uso que podían hacer de sus facultades y su espíritu, no obstante, les había dotado de las mismas capacidades, la misma razón, los mismos afectos, la misma bondad y lealtad, las mismas pasiones y resentimientos hacia el mal, la misma gratitud, sinceridad, fidelidad y demás facultades de hacer y recibir el bien que a nosotros. Y, si a Él le complacía darles la oportunidad de ejercerlos, estaban tan dispuestos como nosotros, incluso más que nosotros mismos, a utilizarlos correctamente.