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Indirect Legislation § 5
Benevolence
strive to inform them that the tenderest and most refined attachments puts on the livery of selfishness [are is but
selfishness when are gross and sordid] [opposed to the good of the whole
community] when it makes a man the enemy
of his country's welfare. Let Let him hold up set before
to them the example their eyes the examples of Draco and of Bacchus:
[and let him shew point to them] and of the Spartan mother
plunging who plunged a dagger into whose dagger pierced the bosom of her recreant
son. There is little fear that ma in It would
be dangerous Antiquity furnishes examples of horrors
which are sometimes overstrained: but there is little
fear of their being imitated followed to the letter.
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