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NONCON - Crit. Review ++ For 1766. p. 328.176 1

A writer in one of the reviews falls with great
asperity upon Mr de Voltaire for
palliating seeking (as it seems to him)under in
one of his pieces this to
introducing in the article Amour Socratique
palliate the guilt of this offence This he does in the Grief of Griefs stile without attempting to invalidate the truth of any of those observations which appear to him to be introduced for the sake of palliating it in that design
of a miscellany entitled The Philosophical
Dictionary" observations

I dare answer for that gallant philosopher his physical abhorrence against this filthiness falls short in nothing to that of this Reviewer. What is curious, the circumstance argument which
Mr de Voltaire assigns as the reason
for his not holding it innocent, the only
circumstance property on from which it's political & consequently
moral guilt can reasonably rationally be
inferred established <add>it's evil influence on
population</add> the Reviewer is sollicitous <note>not without <add>at least an appearance at least of propriety</note> to</add> contest not without
plausibility: forsooth because this, forsooth
was being the artifice of the Frenchman's
artifice, to throw the opinion of it's guilt
upon a false an untenable foundation, in order to remove
it from the true.

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What distinguishes a real from an imaginary
crime, is precisely this, that with regard
to the 1st all endeavours observations that can be introduced
to palliate it, being either false in
point of fact, or inconclusive in point
of reason, admit in general of an easy a ready
and at the worst of a satisfactory reply:
The History of such an one is it's severest satyre. the thorough examination of it the most effectual method of [rendering it odious] confirming strengthening the persuasion of its guilt. and the greater is that it's guilt, the less is there occasion for invective heat & exclamation men's judgments need but to be inform'd. [On the contrary in the case of the latter, even
that persuasion has no other foundation than
prejudice, the setting up a for against maxim
& the giving full loose to the torrent of
invective & exclamation the only means
of it's support — men's passions must be
inflamed] Suppose the experiment, for example,
made on Rape or Robbery — are
these crimes to be defended with any danger
of advantage? If I were thoroughly a
man's enemy, I could not wish for
better sport, than to have him set up

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