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'' | <p>time? or I, if I were to hear that a thousand years hence some<lb/> | ||
nation will seize this City? it is because our Country is so dear<lb/> | |||
to us, that we are concerned for its welfare, abstracted from<lb/> | |||
the consideration of any advantage of our own. therefore<lb/> | |||
death <gap/> (which by reason of uncertain<lb/> | |||
accidents we are always liable <add>to</add>, and at the | |||
from) <add><sic>do's</sic> not deter a wise man</add> from always being interested in the welfare of the —<lb/> | |||
<sic>Republick</sic> and his countrymen: and he acts as if even posterity,<lb/> | |||
which he cannot see, belonged to him. for which reason, —<lb/> | |||
even one that holds the Soul mortal may project things —<lb/> | |||
eternal: not for glory's sake, which he cannot be sensible<lb/> | |||
of when dead, but virtue's, which will be naturally attended<lb/> | |||
with glory even <sic>tho'</sic> you do not intend it. moreover, thus it<lb/> | |||
is in Nature as in our birth, every thing has its beginning<lb/> | |||
in regard to us, so in our death every thing has its ending.<lb/> | |||
as nothing belonged to us before our birth so nothing<lb/> | |||
will after death, where is the evil in this? forasmuch<lb/> | |||
as death belongs neither, to the living nor the dead; the —<lb/> | |||
one ar not affected by it, the other exist not. some<lb/> | |||
people think they put a favourable construction upon it<lb/> | |||
by comparing it to sleep. as if any body would <sic>chuse</sic> to<lb/> | |||
live 90 years in such a manner, as having lived Sixty of<lb/> | |||
them, to Sleep the remaining thirty. even hogs would not<lb/> | |||
like that, much less men. that Endymion who as story<lb/> | |||
goes fell <sic>a sleep</sic> upon mount Latmas in caria, is</p> | |||
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time? or I, if I were to hear that a thousand years hence some
nation will seize this City? it is because our Country is so dear
to us, that we are concerned for its welfare, abstracted from
the consideration of any advantage of our own. therefore
death (which by reason of uncertain
accidents we are always liable to, and at the
from) do's not deter a wise man from always being interested in the welfare of the —
Republick and his countrymen: and he acts as if even posterity,
which he cannot see, belonged to him. for which reason, —
even one that holds the Soul mortal may project things —
eternal: not for glory's sake, which he cannot be sensible
of when dead, but virtue's, which will be naturally attended
with glory even tho' you do not intend it. moreover, thus it
is in Nature as in our birth, every thing has its beginning
in regard to us, so in our death every thing has its ending.
as nothing belonged to us before our birth so nothing
will after death, where is the evil in this? forasmuch
as death belongs neither, to the living nor the dead; the —
one ar not affected by it, the other exist not. some
people think they put a favourable construction upon it
by comparing it to sleep. as if any body would chuse to
live 90 years in such a manner, as having lived Sixty of
them, to Sleep the remaining thirty. even hogs would not
like that, much less men. that Endymion who as story
goes fell a sleep upon mount Latmas in caria, is
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Jeremy Bentham |
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