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OBSTACLES
Why not
fatal?
depravity, according to their different situations
& dispositions — Men's Their crimes & evils are for the most part the
sudden products of occasions which they do
not force — No one, says it is an old observation
is watched, without he sees something in some particular
to be gotten by for being so. — Wherever therefore there
is nothing of that kind in particular in view, he
behoves to consent without reluctance to regulations
which the tendency of which had he any such views would
be to frustrate them
Again, as it is not the hands, of one or of a
few men only, that are tied by the sort of laws in
question, but those of every man, & every man
agreeably to from another uncontrovertible principle of human nature,
has a better opinion of his own probity than
of that of most others, he thence concludes
that he shall be a greater good or by having
them tied down with them, than by their being born with
them.
meaning all the
while, so long as he
has no particular
corrupt and
to pervert his judgment
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