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capital punishment — It is a great unhappiness when people are agitated with doubts which <add>A situation full of unhappiness when their doubts are</add><lb/> | capital punishment — It is a great unhappiness when people are agitated with doubts which <add>A situation full of unhappiness when their doubts are</add><lb/> | ||
are of such a nature as <del>will</del> <add>to</add> <sic>admitt</sic> of no solution — which is the case <add>which happens</add> in all instances,<lb/> | are of such a nature as <del>will</del> <add>to</add> <sic>admitt</sic> of no solution — which is the case <add>which happens</add> in all instances,<lb/> | ||
where, as here the terms in which they conceive them have in reality | where, as here the terms in which they conceive them have in reality no meaning: <del>for</del><lb/> | ||
the word "right" when disjoined both from positive Law & from expediency is of that sort:<lb/> | the word "right" when disjoined both from positive Law & from expediency is of that sort:<lb/> | ||
& he who persists in seeking a third sense for it must expect only to plunge himself more<lb/> | & he who persists in seeking a third sense for it must expect only to plunge himself more<lb/> | ||
PUNISHMT Punishment of Death lawful?
I have got a notion in my head serve how others that ... but if you ask me why, it's more than I can tell Various persons at various times have entertained made agitated by doubts, difficulties concerning the right of societies to inflict
capital punishment — It is a great unhappiness when people are agitated with doubts which A situation full of unhappiness when their doubts are
are of such a nature as will to admitt of no solution — which is the case which happens in all instances,
where, as here the terms in which they conceive them have in reality no meaning: for
the word "right" when disjoined both from positive Law & from expediency is of that sort:
& he who persists in seeking a third sense for it must expect only to plunge himself more
& more into [utter] darkness. & distraction
Is it lawful to do good
on the Sabbath day?
PUNISHMENT. [After END] Right of- [ ] Death.
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