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True it is that the ordinary phraseology of the world is likely
to lead the Inquirer astray. The qualities upon which the stamp
of public approbation – as those upon which the introdiction of
public reprobation has been set are frequently those which deserve
no such honorable distinction – while public reprobation interdicts
actions on which it would be difficult to affix the scandal or the
stain of vice. The judgments of the public opinion Tribunal are
thus sometimes in opposition with the dictates of utility – & the
conventions of society – some of them the mere vestiges of barbarism –
make Laws which resist all argument – and stand unshaken on
the prejudices left by feudal times ago times.

The historian of Morality will one day
appear – to write the tales of the several Dynasties that
have ruled over human actions – and most instructive will
the pages be.

First epoch – that of Force. No other
Law Code – no other standard – no other source of morality. Violence
the Code Law – the and violent the gi law giver. Virtus or virtue
is there found in its original sense, – a mere conjugate of
Vis. When This vis when in action took the name of
courage – or virtus – the quality which is most the object
of admiration among savages – a quality far more animal
physical than moral & deserving of no praise any farther
than as the ally of prudence or of beneficence.

Then comes the second reign – the reign
of Fraud. Force belongs to a time of ignorance. Fraud
to semi-civilization. Its influence like that of
force is usurpation – but it comes with fallacies
instead of open violence to help – It fosters credulity it
leagues itself with superstition. It takes hold of the
terrors of the mind & makes them subservient to its real but often
concealed despotism. The usurping Priest – the aristocratical
Lawyer flourish under its dynasty.

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