position that if he is not free it is his own fault. It is penal in
India to hold a slave "against his will," and we trust the time is
not far distant when the last three words may be struck out.

With true instinct Christopher Anderson, in his Annals of the
English Bible, associates Carey, Clarkson, and Cowper, as the
triumvirate who, unknown to each other, began the great moral
changes, in the Church, in society, and in literature, which mark
the difference between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
Little did Carey think, as he studied under Sutcliff within sight
of the poet's house, that Cowper was writing at that very time these
lines in The Task while he himself was praying for the highest of
all kinds of liberty to be given to the heathen and the slaves,
Christ's freedom which had up till then remained

"...unsung
By poets, and by senators unpraised,
Which monarchs cannot grant, nor all the powers
Of earth and hell confederate take away;
A liberty which persecution, fraud,
Oppression, prisons, have no power to bind:
Which whoso tastes can be enslaved no more."





CHAPTER XII

WHAT CAREY DID FOR SCIENCE--FOUNDER OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND