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cannot be assumed to be justly or naturally enslaved.
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Similarly, he denies that
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slavery is always or only appropriate for non-Greeks.
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There are no, he is saying, racial or ethnic characteristics that
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distinguish the natural slave from the natural master.
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In a stunning admission, he says--listen to this--that
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"while nature may intend to distinguish the free man from the slave,"
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he says, "the opposite often results.
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Nature often misses the mark," he says.
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Now we seem to be completely confused.
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If slavery is natural,
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and if nature intends to distinguish the slave from the free,