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11 Feby 1808
Another is, that besides their under the name of learning
and science, those English instruments, besides that ineptitude
with reference to the mode of justice, are enveloped with involved in
parti so immense and monstrous a mass of absurdity
and immorality, that the acceptance of it by on the part of a nation
in which any spirit of regard for reason or morality
is to be found, is altogether out of the course of nature.
They would be have to receive in the first place a rule of action
widely different from that which they have been accustomed to,
and probably upon the whole not so good, in the next
place that rule of action defiled by a mass of filth
and , such as men may be reconciled
to by habit that by which men are reconciled to everything,
viz. habit – but by nothing else.
By the habit, Under the influence of the impurities of a man's own body are
regarded by him with indifference: but his faith must
have been exalted to a pitch equal to that of the
of the Grand , as he could endure the to be drenched
by the like impurities imported from abroad.
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