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<add>12)</add><lb/><head>Homicide.</head><lb/><lb/>the action of which the party befriended stood | <add>12)</add><lb/><head>Homicide.</head><lb/><lb/>the action of which the party befriended stood exposed. The<lb/><note>Friendly Sympathy<lb/></note>killer places himself in the situation of the friend when<lb/>he means to benefit by the crime.<lb/><lb/><add>Instances of</add> Homicide from this motive are so uncommon in the<lb/>present state of things. <gap/> the supposition of such<lb/>an instance seems a strained one. It is the force of<lb/>the moral sanction as much as any thing that streng-<lb/>-thens the bonds of friendship. But the Law of Morality is at present so generally acknowledged to further ab-<lb/>-solutely the [<gap/> of friendship at such a price]<lb/>making such sacrifices to friendship, that when an<lb/>act of Homicide is committed, men would be more apt<lb/>to attribute it to any other motive than to this.<lb/>In the early ages of society it was otherwise. The moral<lb/>Sanction had not then contracted that close alliance with<lb/>the political which it has done since. Friendship was<lb/>then a source of a multitude of crimes which now<lb/><gap/>do not make their appearance at all, or if they<lb/>do, arise <add><gap/></add> from ignoble motives. As civilization advances, <del><gap/></del> the virtues of men lose somewhat of their force<lb/>along with the vices: but upon the whole society is far<lb/>from being a loser by the change.<lb/><lb/>Not that the cases <add>instances</add> of Homicide spring from the motive<lb/>is even now absolutely unexampled. Many very powerful<lb/>causes of friendship act with peculiar force in the soci-<lb/>-ety of common Malefactors. Malefactors have their com-<lb/>-mon interest as "good men and true" have theirs.<lb/>It is but too common a case to see a malefactor take<lb/>or at least attempt to take a bloody revenge for the pro-<lb/>-secution of his friends. | ||
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Homicide.
the action of which the party befriended stood exposed. The
Friendly Sympathy
killer places himself in the situation of the friend when
he means to benefit by the crime.
Instances of Homicide from this motive are so uncommon in the
present state of things. the supposition of such
an instance seems a strained one. It is the force of
the moral sanction as much as any thing that streng-
-thens the bonds of friendship. But the Law of Morality is at present so generally acknowledged to further ab-
-solutely the [ of friendship at such a price]
making such sacrifices to friendship, that when an
act of Homicide is committed, men would be more apt
to attribute it to any other motive than to this.
In the early ages of society it was otherwise. The moral
Sanction had not then contracted that close alliance with
the political which it has done since. Friendship was
then a source of a multitude of crimes which now
do not make their appearance at all, or if they
do, arise from ignoble motives. As civilization advances, the virtues of men lose somewhat of their force
along with the vices: but upon the whole society is far
from being a loser by the change.
Not that the cases instances of Homicide spring from the motive
is even now absolutely unexampled. Many very powerful
causes of friendship act with peculiar force in the soci-
-ety of common Malefactors. Malefactors have their com-
-mon interest as "good men and true" have theirs.
It is but too common a case to see a malefactor take
or at least attempt to take a bloody revenge for the pro-
-secution of his friends.
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homicide |
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jeremy bentham |
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