Consecrated Fallacies

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 2, 1900

Consecrated Fallacies

THE North American Review of December, 1899, published an article on “Consecrated Fallacies.” And the consecrated fallacies discussed and “exploded” are that “all men are created equal,” and that “governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The writer holds that these statements were only fallacies when they were first promulgated in the Declaration of Independence; but that the sacrifices and sufferings of the Fathers of the republic consecrated them; and so they have remained until now; but now it is time to abandon the consecration, and let the statements stand simply as the fallacies which they always were. He declares that it is not true, and never was true, that all men are created equal. And all the rest of the article is to the same purpose.