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1823. April 17
Constitut. Code
breasts: the knowledge of each man's wants being in confined within his own breast
the case of providing for them according to that knowledge being
lodged in some other breast or breasts other than in which alone
was the seat of this necessary knowledge: that admitting
if it were admitted, or perhaps without error it may perhaps be admitted that
in the highly polished matured state of society we have and thus
a highly cultivated and expanded mind, at the moment under the stimulus of some extraordinary
excitement the a sacrifice of self self-regarding interest to
social interest upon a national scale is not has not been without
example, examples of this sort of public virtue in this shape
can not reasonably be regarded as so being as numerous as those
of public virtue in this shape can not reasonably
be regarded as being so frequently exemplified as
insanity; and that as is the case of insanity, so in
this – it is form in what has place in the conduct on the part of
two thousand and not in what has place in the conduct
of the extremely few one in the every thousand that all
sound one rational and useful political arrangements
will be grounded.
Of a truth state of things this uncontrovertible no sooner is the
existence to a certain degree generally extensively acknowledged, that
all pretence to this species of purity will be regarded⊞ ⊞ as would an assertion
of chastity in the mouth
of a prostitute, at the
very moment of solicitation,
regarded as an
insult of to the understandings of all those in whose presence to whom it is addressed,
and will as such be resented.
☞ Add here what approach to disinterestedness may be
exemplified.
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