William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… move – from a former clubman and faro player at White’s and Brooks’s (Tomkins 29) – he urged Pitt to implement a tax on public diversions. But this should be set against a subtler apprehension of public entertainments, since he made a distinction between ‘innocent relaxation’ and an unbridled passion for gaming in … Indies ( The Life , vol. IV, p. 103). He had very soon understood that abolition was to be obtained through a shaping of public opinion by both the spoken word and the written word. Hence his publication of Practical Christianity in which he …
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