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SECT. IV. Connection
By moral guilt, speaking of a sort of action, (for
with respect to individual actions it may be otherwise)
a man who knows asks himself is at the pains of asking himself what he means, means (I take it)
mischievousness: to encrease the moral guilt of
an action is therefore to encrease its mischievousness
To tell us therefore that a human Law does not encrease the
moral guilt of an action murder, is to tell us that it does
not encrease its mischievousness: which might may be
very true perhaps, were it but worth the telling.
As to its "superadding any fresh obligation in foro
conscientiæ, to give us have such a bone to pick just
now, is rather hard upon us. I have seen a
discourse with of 100 a hundred pages written upon this
same single word "obligation", to find out the meaning the sense of it.
of it. A work by the bye of some repute and not altogether wholly
undeserving unworthy of it:⊞ ⊞ except that it is rather of the larges; for what it had to do: being rather only that it was more of so a
Nutshell in an Iliad, than of an Iliad in a
nutshell. To this let me recommend the reader,
unless the few words that follow here we shall have occasion to say presently will satisfy
him.
"Forum Conscientiæ" is a Latin word phrase, shews
a man's learning, and comes in very prettily, when
he knows what he means by it. If our Author
does, I give him joy. It's more than I do.
What I know of the matter is this. If a man's
fingers itch to committ murder, there are three
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