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11 Compensation.
The argument to which the above reasons have That for the affirmative the best argument for Tyranny and Persecution
been opposed [ I look upon as being] will I believe
be found to be the best grounded as well as the most
plausible argument that can be given in favour
of prevention, of any kind that is for of punishment without
a real mischief. any other mischief than the pain of antipathy which give birth to the desire
Whether of a practise be really
mischievous may be judged of by the possibility or
impropriety of ranking it with propriety in one or other of
the four classes marked out in the table of
offences. In At the end of that volume. See Fragmt on Gov't Preface
<note>Antipathies may be and than Satiated
The sentiments of Antipathy there is
a cheaper way of caring, than by satiating them
[with the suffering of those against whom they are
entertained. It is only letting reason have its course
Moral antipathies that have no foundation in reason
will in time be cured by it. Reason however weak
and slow for so ever in its operations, will if there
is no force to oppose it, will always in the end prevail.] wimpled
in the end. For what else can we mean by
Reason in any case, than that sort of argument which when urged
in its fullest force and placed in the clearest light,
has in virtue of the fixed principles of human nature
the strongest tendency of any to convince and
satisfy as.
A concluding reason against the satiating of
irrational antipathies how popular so ever with the suffering
of those against whom whose practices they are entertained in that
it will be always cheaper curing them than satiating them at the long run [they may be always cured at a cheaper rate. Antipathies may be cheaper cured than satiated
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