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Consciousness of the
Frivolousness of
these last arguments
proved by their
being ranked behind
the argument from
delay
It is not that these arguments are merely frivolous in themselves
— frivolous in the extreme to every impartial eye
that looks at them: they were frivolous — and as frivolous
as it is possible for arguments to be — in the eyes
of the very persons by whom who thus make use of
them. Can ever this be a matter of doubt — if
the fact were susceptible exposed of doubt — if their own notorious
frivolousness was not a sufficient proof of the appearance
they can not but wear to in every eye without exception —
that looks at them: the very circumstance of the
company in which they are found — and the rank coupled with that of
in which they are placed would of itself be abundantly sufficient.
The leading argument — the argument placed
in the front of the battle is the argument from the delay
— the argument by which the length of a course
of injury male practice/criminality is brought adduced by way of justification of the consummation
of it: the more flagrant their own wrong, the
stronger their plea for being allowed to take advantage of
it, for being suffered to reap the full advantage of
it.
I have tortured you so long, that now I have a
right to kill you, put you to death, murder you. In point of morality
there is a difference between the two cases the cases are different: but in point the logic
of logic, they are the same.
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