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C Of Simple Personal Injuries.
be carried into effect. If a person your enemy
having conceived the intention of doing you an
injury, can however persevere in it no longer than one
day, in such case if you can but guard a secure yourself
against his attempts for that one day, you
are safe. But if he is such a man as to perseveres in that
same intention for ten days, the danger
you are exposed to of suffering at his hands
is ten times as great (to wit in point of probability) as in the former.
People round about who come to know of the affair will understand as much: and in proportion will their apprehensions be at the thoughts of their having amongst them a person of so dangerous a character. And if
if they do although they should not understand the precise ground reason
of the appr why their apprehensions are so
much greater in the one case than in the
other, those apprehensions however will not
on that account be the less.
2. Because the longer a man on a
given occasion continues to be governed by
the force of the dissocial motives, the worse
on that account does his does he prove to be in
point of disposition: that is the so much
the less obsequious does he appears to be to the
force of the social and motives. See Introd. Ch... [Of Motives:] and Ch... [Of Dispositions] The
less assistance therefore has the punishment to
expect from the influence of those motives. The
stronger therefore must it be made in itself, in order to
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