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Indirect
Exposing person
Marking
Disadvantages
Another objection may be taken from the embarrassment uneasiness it might give people
however innocent to have their names exposed to
all the world and to be known in the as they
walked in the streets and in every company into
which they went. To an objection so vague and extensive
in its nature there is no knowing what to answer
in the compass of a few sentences: that a
certain quantity of inconvenience would arise
from this source it is impossible to deny:
all I can say is that I look upon as it as
falling very far short of being much less than equivalent to the advantage: let
those who doubt compare and judge. I know
not what philosopher it was who wished he had
windows in his head that all men might
read his thoughts: this philosopher would certainly
have had no objection to his carrying his name upon
his forehead. It will be admitted I think that
upon the whole as a general rule and upon an average taken of human
situation feelings in different situations, shame and
fear of publicity are the accompaniments of vice: and
that the . . . . . was not altogether in the wrong,
who said whose observation aphorism it is that the virtuous man is as bold as a
lion. It is a In matters where innocence may
without
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