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be] destructive to the human race if it were general.<lb/> | be] destructive to the human race if it were general.<lb/> | ||
<foreign>Comment s'est-il <unclear>pu</unclear> faire qu'un vice destructeur <lb/> du genre humain, s'il etait general; qu'un <lb/> | <foreign>Comment s'est-il <unclear>pu</unclear> faire qu'un vice destructeur <lb/> du genre humain, s'il etait general; qu'un <lb/> | ||
<unclear> | <unclear>attentat</unclear> infame contre la nation, soit pourtant si <lb/> | ||
naturel?<add>+</add></foreign>. <del><gap/></del> A little further on speaking of <lb/> | naturel?<add>+</add></foreign>. <del><gap/></del> A little further on speaking of <lb/> | ||
<unclear>Sextus</unclear> Empiricus who would have us believe that the <lb/> | <unclear>Sextus</unclear> Empiricus who would have us believe that the <lb/> | ||
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is sufficient that this unprolific kind of venery be practiced:<lb/> | is sufficient that this unprolific kind of venery be practiced:<lb/> | ||
it is not necessary that it should be practised to<lb/> | it is not necessary that it should be practised to<lb/> | ||
the exclusion of that which is prolific. Now That there<lb/> | the exclusion of that which is prolific. <hi rend="superscript">Now</hi> That there<lb/> | ||
should ever be wanting such a measure of the regular<lb/> | should ever be wanting such a measure of the regular<lb/> | ||
and ordinary inclination of desire for the proper object as<lb/> | and ordinary inclination of desire for the proper object as<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
attentat 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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