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Offences against one's Self. Paederasty<lb/></head> | Offences against one's Self. Paederasty<lb/></head> | ||
<p>in favour of it <add>upon the subject</add> without taking notice of that circumstance.<lb/></p> | <p>in favour of it) <add>upon the subject</add> without taking notice of that circumstance.<lb/></p> | ||
A notion more obvious, but perhaps not much <lb/> <note>Whether it hurts population?</note> | A notion more obvious, but perhaps not much <lb/> <note>Whether it hurts population?</note> | ||
better founded than the former is that of it's being <lb/> | better founded than the former is that of it's being <lb/> | ||
prejudicial to population. <add>[+]</add>, < | prejudicial to population. <add>[+]</add>, M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Voltaire appears <lb/> | ||
disinclined in one part of his works to give <unclear>some</unclear><lb/> | disinclined in one part of his works to give <unclear>some</unclear><lb/> | ||
countenance to this opinion. He speaks of it as a <lb/> | countenance to this opinion. He speaks of it as a <lb/> | ||
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Offences against one's Self. Paederasty
in favour of it) upon the subject without taking notice of that circumstance.
A notion more obvious, but perhaps not much
Whether it hurts population?
better founded than the former is that of it's being
prejudicial to population. [+], Mr Voltaire appears
disinclined in one part of his works to give some
countenance to this opinion. He speaks of it as a
vice which would be [the destruction of, or at least would
be] destructive to the human race if it were general.
Comment s'est-il pu faire qu'un vice destructeur
du genre humain, s'il etait general; qu'un
allentat infame contre la nation, soit pourtant si
naturel?+. A little further on speaking of
Sextus Empiricus who would have us believe that the
practise was "recommended" in Persia by the laws,
he insists that the effect of such a law would be to
annihilate that human race if it were literally
observed. "Non, (says he) il n'est pas dans la nature humaine
"de faire une loi qui contredit, & qui outrage la
"nature, une loi qui ancontirait le genre-humain
"si elle etait observee a la lettre." This consequence
however is far enough from being a necessary one.
For a law of the purport he represents to be observed, it
is sufficient that this unprolific kind of venery be practiced:
it is not necessary that it should be practised to
the exclusion of that which is prolific. Now That there
should ever be wanting such a measure of the regular
and ordinary inclination of desire for the proper object as
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