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<p><hi rend='superscript'>+</hi> To what purpose mention <add>bring to view</add> what is established<lb/> but for <add>this</add> ascertaining of what ought to be? that<lb/> the customs and laws of distant nations are <lb/>widely different we knew well enough <add>already</add> before<lb/> you told us? but ought they [by those who have<lb/> it to choose] to be permitted to remain so? </p> <!-- Preceding paragraph is outlined in pencil --> | <p><hi rend='superscript'>+</hi> To what purpose mention <add>bring to view</add> what is established<lb/> but for <add>this</add> ascertaining of what ought to be? that<lb/> the customs and laws of distant nations are <lb/>widely different we knew well enough <add>already</add> before<lb/> you told us? but ought they [by those who have<lb/> it to choose] to be permitted to remain so? </p> <!-- Preceding paragraph is outlined in pencil --> | ||
<p>To questions of this sort it is impossible for<lb/> an attentive and dispassionate examiner to<lb/> give a decisive answer adapted to every case<lb/> Fanaticism or tyranny may cry out, cannot <lb/><unclear>then</unclear>, force them make them in every point <lb/>like <del>them</del>selves <add>our</add>: indolence and timidity may<lb/> say let nothing at all be <unclear>stirred</unclear>: let every<lb/> thing go on <add>in</add> its old train: while <add>as long</add> every thing is as it<lb/> is every thing is as it should be: to attempt to <lb/>make things better is a sure way to make them<lb/> worse.</p> | |||
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+ To what purpose mention bring to view what is established
but for this ascertaining of what ought to be? that
the customs and laws of distant nations are
widely different we knew well enough already before
you told us? but ought they [by those who have
it to choose] to be permitted to remain so?
To questions of this sort it is impossible for
an attentive and dispassionate examiner to
give a decisive answer adapted to every case
Fanaticism or tyranny may cry out, cannot
then, force them make them in every point
like themselves our: indolence and timidity may
say let nothing at all be stirred: let every
thing go on in its old train: while as long every thing is as it
is every thing is as it should be: to attempt to
make things better is a sure way to make them
worse.
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