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6 Sept. 1814 7 6
Logic or Ethics Ch. Object
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§ Ought it not?
For the hope of reputation, one thing he must be sure
to do — viz. to keep fair with public opinion, with public
opinion taken as it is, e.g. to no current prejudice, to no generally
prevalent bias, on any occasion must he make any opposition oppose himself must may his
discourse be opposite in any part of it stand opposed 1. Throughout the whole
field, with very little exception the public bias of public opinion is on the side of
severity. Why? — because in every restraint or constraint imposed on his neighbour every man beholds an increase
of his power and a gratification to his pride and his vanity
in every restraint or constraint imposed upon his neighbour,
provided always that by his own self esteem joined to his own self-love, some
pretence, how slight soever can be found for exempting
himself from the common general imputation and the fruit consequence
of the general law.
2. In the next place, be the practice in question
what it may, the more greater the severity with which be manifested
by him in speaking of it, the more generally obvious and natural the conclusion
that he himself has ever been pure of it: for what
so unnatural and improbable in that a man should
be too forward forward in passing condemnation on himself?
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