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CERTAINTY-Impediments to Prosecution.a1
There is a remarkable observation, quoted by Puffendorf
+ Kennet's Transln. p.133. Ed.1729.from another Moralist, ++ which may
++ Belthuyson dc principles Quote & decord help to satisfy us, how much the sense of
morality & the regard to public Interest is advanced
in strength in this country beyond what it is at
present in some countries or was formerly in
our own. "If a Man (says the last mentioned
"Author who works in Holland) be found committing
a Robbery the multitude presently join
"Hands, & render to pursue and to seize the
"Thief: But if upon a Quarrel one man
"hath killed another, every body wishes he may
"get off safe: at least anybody willingly assists
in the taking of him." - I have beenremember to assured
byfroma variety of hands, of if it's being so still
when a man is killedin most nations of the Continent - And I will
boldly aver, trusting that I shall be justified by every
man's observation, that it is not so here. Let but
a man have shed the blood of another be it for
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CERTAINTY Imped.ts to Prosecution
what cause it may, all whoare up in arms in <add>a instant</add> see or hear of mak
common cause against that the man: at least
if it be not apparent, that the fighting violence was mutual
& by consent.
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