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King Solomon's Dilemma -- and the Confederacy's

King Solomon's Dilemma -- and the Confederacy's SC 10.4-Genovese 10/28/04 8:19 AM Page 55 essa y ...................... King Solomon’s Dilemma— and the Confederacy’s by Eugene D. Genovese 55 SC 10.4-Genovese 10/28/04 8:19 AM Page 56 “Think, too, how difficult it would be, even if you were fighting feeble opponents, to preserve the purity of your religion, and how you will be forced to transgress the very laws which furnish your chief hope of making God your ally, and so will alienate Him…. But if in the war you transgress your ancestral Law, I don’t see what you have left to fight for, since your one desire is that none of your ancestral customs should be broken. How then will you be able to call the Deity to your aid, if you deliberately deny Him the service that is His due?” —King Agrippa II, according to Josephus he dream. The slaveholding South could do what no society or nation had ever done: avoid moral decay and thereby break the historical cycle of power, glory, and greatness followed by cor- ruption, decadence, and collapse through which all nations and T empires have passed. The classical cyclical theory of history, most notably associated with Polybius, deeply impressed educated southerners, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

King Solomon's Dilemma -- and the Confederacy's

Genovese, Eugene D., --
Southern Cultures , Volume 10 (4) – Nov 18, 2004
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SC 10.4-Genovese 10/28/04 8:19 AM Page 55 essa y ...................... King Solomon’s Dilemma— and the Confederacy’s by Eugene D. Genovese 55 SC 10.4-Genovese 10/28/04 8:19 AM Page 56 “Think, too, how difficult it would be, even if you were fighting feeble opponents, to preserve the purity of your religion, and how you will be forced to transgress the very laws which furnish your chief hope of making God your ally, and so will alienate Him…. But if in the war you transgress your ancestral Law, I don’t see what you have left to fight for, since your one desire is that none of your ancestral customs should be broken. How then will you be able to call the Deity to your aid, if you deliberately deny Him the service that is His due?” —King Agrippa II, according to Josephus he dream. The slaveholding South could do what no society or nation had ever done: avoid moral decay and thereby break the historical cycle of power, glory, and greatness followed by cor- ruption, decadence, and collapse through which all nations and T empires have passed. The classical cyclical theory of history, most notably associated with Polybius, deeply impressed educated southerners,

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