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Indirect Legislation
Divesting
tyranny , and of what else [is there that tyranny can
can tyranny be made? consist in] ? tyranny I mean in I speak always of the effects, how
opposite soever be the disposition that gave it them birth.
But it is easier and ever will it be to build on hollow
notions than to search them to the bottom: to
[vibrate between] thrash backwar to and frowa between weakness and wisdom than to persevere
in either: to follow the bent of prejudice than
to correct it.
When I have
been censured reprobated
so discordantly
without further
explanation I am
always inclined to
suspect the grounds
is lies as much more [very easy to be
found][rather] in the
ideas of the censor
than in the behaviours
of the hearer
who thus the disorder it conceals always commonly in some
pleasure the mischievousness of which is taken for granted because it can't be proved.
La propre joye
said Helvetius
speaking of the Government
est bonne de ses
filles.
What would he have
said if he had known
how much has been
done to banish it
from
in England
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