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<head>OBSTACLES PREJUGES Professional Antiquity</head>< | <head>OBSTACLES PREJUGES Professional Antiquity</head> | ||
<p>All this, <add>how true as ever</add> whether true or otherwise, is innocent enough, as long as it rests there: but when these<lb/>speculations <add>these when they get hold on the minds of men as they seldom failed to be</add> come to be reduced to practise, and men are bidden to sit with their hands<lb/><note>"The timid prudence of the present moment"<lb/>Beccari</note>before them under the purpose of <unclear>subsisting</unclear> evils and forbidden to stir a finger to remove<lb/>them, because <add>these Ancestors</add> they were saddled with them by those Ancestors, then it is that <add>it becomes apparent that &c</add> we see that &c.</p> | |||
<note>When <add>the woods were filled with naked fugitives</add> men fled <add>about</add> naked in the woods,<lb/>from the scourges of the Druids,<lb/>& Brothers fought who should enjoy<lb/>their sister</note> | |||
<note>Our Ancestors those unrelinquishable <add>inimitable</add> models<lb/>of intellectual & moral excellence,<lb/>exceeded only by their <add>own Ancestors</add> who again were<lb/>exceeded by theirs, & so <add><del><gap/></del> on</add> in a climax<lb/>back to those worthier <add>of those times when &</add> whom the Roman<lb/>Tyrant formed &c</note> | |||
<p>When men lay that <add>mighty prodigious</add> <del>great</del> a stress that is sometimes <add>often</add> done upon the contingent <add>contingent danger</add> prospect of<lb/>unknown & unimaginable inconveniences, one would imagine them to have forgotten that<lb/><del><gap/></del> <add>along with the power</add> of <hi rend="underline">doing</hi> that <add>from</add> which such terrible consequences are apprehended, the<lb/>Legislature has also that of undoing; and that the road must needs be smoother from<lb/>the innovation <add>after such an <unclear>experiment</unclear> of the inconveniences as they apprehend</add> back again to the original state of <add>the subject</add> being, than it was from that state to the<lb/><note>Obstinacy constitutes a companion to timidity<lb/>Timidity of <add>imaginary <gap/></add> intangible inconveniences before<lb/><del>the</del> attempt -- <lb/>Obstinacy in persisting <add>when men engaged</add> after the attempt<lb/>in spite of real ones after they were felt</note>innovation: knowing as they must do from the evidence of their own minds that the attachment<lb/>to what is established <add>in Legislation</add> is general and constant, whereas that <add>appetite of</add> attachment to Novelty is only casual<lb/>and particular. Nor <add>therefore</add> does it seem too bold an <del><gap/></del> <add>axiom</add> to <add>lay down</add> establish, "that this retrograde </p> | |||
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OBSTACLES PREJUGES Professional Antiquity
All this, how true as ever whether true or otherwise, is innocent enough, as long as it rests there: but when these
speculations these when they get hold on the minds of men as they seldom failed to be come to be reduced to practise, and men are bidden to sit with their hands
"The timid prudence of the present moment"
Beccaribefore them under the purpose of subsisting evils and forbidden to stir a finger to remove
them, because these Ancestors they were saddled with them by those Ancestors, then it is that it becomes apparent that &c we see that &c.
When the woods were filled with naked fugitives men fled about naked in the woods,
from the scourges of the Druids,
& Brothers fought who should enjoy
their sister
Our Ancestors those unrelinquishable inimitable models
of intellectual & moral excellence,
exceeded only by their own Ancestors who again were
exceeded by theirs, & so on in a climax
back to those worthier of those times when & whom the Roman
Tyrant formed &c
When men lay that mighty prodigious great a stress that is sometimes often done upon the contingent contingent danger prospect of
unknown & unimaginable inconveniences, one would imagine them to have forgotten that
along with the power of doing that from which such terrible consequences are apprehended, the
Legislature has also that of undoing; and that the road must needs be smoother from
the innovation after such an experiment of the inconveniences as they apprehend back again to the original state of the subject being, than it was from that state to the
Obstinacy constitutes a companion to timidity
Timidity of imaginary intangible inconveniences before
the attempt --
Obstinacy in persisting when men engaged after the attempt
in spite of real ones after they were feltinnovation: knowing as they must do from the evidence of their own minds that the attachment
to what is established in Legislation is general and constant, whereas that appetite of attachment to Novelty is only casual
and particular. Nor therefore does it seem too bold an axiom to lay down establish, "that this retrograde
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