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31 Aug. 1814 5
Logic or Ethics Ch.2. Modes of moralizing
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§.2. Improper mode
1. How moralist writers gain reputation by severity: a man could not (it is supposed) himself.
2. How in consequence they bid against one another in severity
3. In themselves they severely copy nothing: to his fellows every item.
4. Mischiefs of ground if
Shall and shalt not the language of the rule
Ought & ought not do of the moralist.
In the character of political 'inter, invested with political sovereign
power the wantonness of man has been the subject
of just well grounded and not unfrequent observation. In the character
of self-erected self-created ruler, wielding like the madman in his cell
an imaginary sceptre, the wantonness would be found still
more egregious. By the fin of In the sense of responsibility by the f of
reaction, the despotism of the acknowledged ruler
beholds feels at all times a check more or less effective. efficacious.
The despotism of the practical moralist beholds experiences finds no such
check
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