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<p>If there were no other ill effects attendant on Superstition This<lb/> | |||
alone would <del>show</del><add>prove</add> it to be [one of] the bitterest rods mankind<lb/> | |||
ever were scourged <add><del>themselves</del></add> with that by bestowing the <del>quality</del> <add>denominations</add> of offenses on<lb/> | |||
<del>things</del><add>acts</add> indifferent to the happiness of society. it creates <add>new</add> artificial crimes,<lb/> | |||
it <add><del>adds</del></add> introduces among men new occasions of division and disgust.<lb/> | |||
<add>thus adding</add> to the but too numerous ones. Which must ever subsist.] It<lb/> | |||
weakens the horror due to real crimes by spending it <hi rend="underline">upon nominal</hi><lb/> | |||
ones - It confounds men's ideas of right and wrong; they <unclear></unclear><lb/> | |||
the emptiness of those denominations as applied to many subjects<lb/> | |||
<del>conclude it alike</del> <add>and become <unclear></unclear> to answer them alike indifferently</add> as applied to all.</p> | |||
<p>If it had not been for a slight tincture at least of Superstition<lb/> | |||
yet remaining, there never could have appeared a work with the<lb/> | |||
title of "Private Vices Public Benefits."</p> | |||
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If there were no other ill effects attendant on Superstition This
alone would showprove it to be [one of] the bitterest rods mankind
ever were scourged themselves with that by bestowing the quality denominations of offenses on
thingsacts indifferent to the happiness of society. it creates new artificial crimes,
it adds introduces among men new occasions of division and disgust.
thus adding to the but too numerous ones. Which must ever subsist.] It
weakens the horror due to real crimes by spending it upon nominal
ones - It confounds men's ideas of right and wrong; they
the emptiness of those denominations as applied to many subjects
conclude it alike and become to answer them alike indifferently as applied to all.
If it had not been for a slight tincture at least of Superstition
yet remaining, there never could have appeared a work with the
title of "Private Vices Public Benefits."
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sir john bowring |
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