Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken? There is blasphemy in the thought. That which is inhuman cannot be divine. -- The justification of slavery has one last hope. Supporters argue that it could be God's will. Douglass refutes the argument with simple logic. "That which is inhuman cannot be divine." Like Descartes, Douglass cannot accept that a benevolent God would condone such barbarism.