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Compensation.
Antipathies may be cheaper cured than Satiated.
rae than they can be satiated at.] For this purpose
all one has there is to do is only to give reason for its free course:
and to employ ap apply argument [to] upon against those who entertain the
antipathy instead of using force against upon those he against by whose
whom it is entertained. whom conduct it is excited. The way to do this is only
to shew that [the innocence of] the practises against which
it is entertained are not⊞ ⊞ (excepting that antipathy which it is in the power of him who harbours it to suppress) productive of any real mischief. In this way there seems little reason
to fear but that sooner or later men may always be shamed
out of such ill-grounded resentments. Reason how weak
and slow soever in its operations, will if there be
no violence force to oppose it, be sure to triumph at the
end. For what else can we mean in any case by
Reason, that that sort of argument which when urged
in full its fullest force and placed in it's clearest light, has
in virtue of the fixed principles of human nature, the
strongest tendency of any to [convince and satisfy us]
give general and final satisfaction?
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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