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Place and Time
+ To what purpose mention bring to view what is established
but for this ascertaining of what ought to be? that
the customs and laws of distant nations are
widely different we knew well enough already before
you told us? but ought they [by those who have
it to choose] to be permitted to remain so?
To questions of this sort it is impossible for
an attentive and dispassionate examiner to
give a decisive answer adapted to every case
Fanaticism or tyranny may cry out, cannot
then, force them make them in every point
like themourselves : indolence and timidity may
say let nothing at all be stirred: let every
thing go on in its old train: while as long every thing is as it
is every thing is as it should be: to attempt to
make things better is a sure way to make them
worse.
But questi in the eyes of
questions of such latitude are not disputable in
so few words, [nor is the conflict of probabilities decided
by so peremptory a tone] as an are right &
wrong separated by such [marked] short <add>rash <add>rough</add> </add> and unbending
lines.
considered
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