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degree of ill will - the degree of intensity
in which this passion is excited is regarded
if not for the only proper at any rate for
the self sufficient measure.
In this principle may be seen the
actuating principles or efficient cause of
action of the tyrant in every situation from
the highest to the lowest: the Sovereign
the Judge, the Master of a family, the
Negro Driver, the College Tutor, the Pedagogue.
Tyranny it has for its;
it acknowledges none; calculation
i t abhors and shrinks from; merit it
ascribes and assumes to itself in proportion
to its own and extravagance.
On the part of the ignorant and
unthinking vulgar this mode of measuring
out punishment is too common
to excite wonder and too natural to
provoke censure. On the part of a professed
teacher of "moral and political Philosophy"
if it be too frequent to excite wonder —
it on that very account affords but so
much
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