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Logic or Ethics Ch. Fortitude

6 §.2. Aristotelians

When reason is has not only been sacrificed, but sacrificed
upon principle, the absurdity of a position, so
far from rendering a disproof a man ashamed of it, operates as
a recommendation of it.

A the man who puts an end to his own life can never have been
a man of fortitude. Would you know why? It is because suicide is unlawful

According to these Oxford Ethics, in case of a war
before you can know whether any of the combatants
fought bravely or no — or rather since on this occasion
words are every thing — whether he was or was not acted or did not act the part of a
man of fortitude, you it will be necessary for you in
the first place to know on which side it was that he
fought, and in the next place whether Justice was on that
side.

Not inconsiderable are the difficulties, which if an orthodox
or fashionable other consistency was ever looked for, would be
found to attend the application of this principle to practice.
Among Look over the whole tribe of conquerors, not scarce
would you find a single man of fortitude.
Your Alexanders, your Caesars, your Gengis Khans,
your Bonapartes — what were they all? any thing but
men of fortitude.

When the protection afforded to an absurdity is such
that no one dares open his mouth mouth dares open against it, the more flagrant
and manifest it is, the greater the triumph with which it
is altered. Grant or deny to those who expose in battle themselves
to no more than a chance of death grant or deny as you will the
praise of fortitude, to those who embrace a certainty of it plunge into death itself
no such praise can be allowed. A self-murderer a man
of fortitude? Call him rather the prince of cowards.

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