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Propositions
(1) (1) Ch. II Codification: or
Ch. III Remedies
Homicide
Species
Existing System
Mental or hypocrisy
Under the Existing system. with very few exceptions So many denominations ... so
many distinctions — So many absurdities: so many absurdities,
so many mischievous absurdities.
Manslaughter Murder. Malice — fils de sa
In common use — in addition to Murder, assassination — massacre all dyslogistic expressing next to
nothing the of the nature of the act in respect of its evil effects
nothing determinately but the feelings of the speaker with in relation to it.
When Price wrote political economy he apprehends troubled
what troubled for the character of the world for the extinction of the species. Price with his demonstrated
the catastrophe, and with his etiology — and his rhetoric pathology physiology
his big plan shewing how much too big the hand was for the body
elucidated it. Chalmers with his pals, extinguished it blew away the
illusion false light[+] [+] the writer of these pages.
Under the existing system the whole stock of mens feeling is absorbed
and monopolized by the beings that have none:
the actually existing beings who are exempt from fear, and
the imaginary future contingent the argumentative beings who are destitute of
existence: it is for these that morbid sentimentality and
hypocrisy join connect in the production of real hence misery upon
the most extensive scale.
The infant of one year old. The infant that has not
reached its first what does it suffer by the loss of life is it
suffering: down to at the time of the fatal moment it has suf lost nothing: at the
mome from and after the fatal moment it suffers nothing can not suffer, for
sufferance supposes existence: that which exists not suffers not.
But the evil imaginary as it is, must be prevented
for in it as so if not in reality an evil it is in name.
Preventive
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