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Those who have the dispensing of the moral sanction are
contented with less proofs than it is necessary for those who have
the dispensing of the Political sanction to require. These proofs
which the nature of the act furnishes they can more easily come at.
For a construction to put upon a single act they call up the whole
series of actions in a man's life. They examine all witnesses
competent and incompetent.

It were to be wished that every man's name were written upon his forehead as
it is well as engraved upon his door. I wish there were It were to be wished that no such thing as
secrecy existed – I wish that every man's house were made of glass. There
would be the less reason to wish for desire windows to his breast. Actions
are a tolerably adequate interpretation to sentiments when observation by the time that a sufficient course
has furnished us with the key.

The more men live in public, the more amenable they are to
the moral sanction. The greater dependence men are in to the public, that is the more equality there is among them, the clearer the evidence comes out, the more it has of certainty in execution. The Liberty of the Press is the greatest
corroborative possessed by of the moral sanction has. Under such the influence – it
were strange if men grew not every day more virtuous than the
former day. I am satisfied they do. I am satisfied they will must
continue so to do, till if ever their nature shall have arrived at its
perfection. Shall they stop? Shall they turn back? The
Rivers shall as soon make a Wall or flow back again to thier
source.

There is but one thing, and that far out of the sphere of
probability that can arrest the tide of improvement.
It is a sudden and universal over-ruling of these moral
influences by physical necessity.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	199	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f59
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	im&co 1831
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	5415
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