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CERTAINTY. Pardon.
Man has 3 great curbs bridles to hold him in from
guilt & hold Society together - fear of suffering — fear of <add>indefinite suffering</add> Punishment in a future life, by
the supreme being — Fear of Punishment in
the present life by Human Law positive constitution of Law — fear of
Punishment suffering indefinite in the present life from the hatred displeasure
of Society. In those dark ages from in which
whence ignorance & melancholy fetch their search for <add> find </add>
scandals of administration perfection the operation of the
2 first was so weak & irregular, that had it
not been for the latter [+]
[+] the only one which happily it is in the power of no one at to loose dissolve [which can never fail entirely,]
all had been lost gone to wreck — the King had
seized the first, the Priest the second: and
according as the interests of these 2 -----
pointed, they were not only slacken'd but strained
even in an opposite direction. Then it was
that every villain in the Kingdom was of
one or other or both the customer or the partner -
the partner when of lucrative crimes
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A 2
they shared with him the spoil: the customer
when of crimes not lucrative they sold to him
impunity.
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