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will say is scarce worth punishing
as a crime especially as by the infamy
in which it will involve the offender
the crime will have made for him
itself its own punishment. But to infamy
in this shape the offendor may
be altogether insensible: and in this case
may be found low people in great numbers
id est the majority of mankind.
But an injury which suppose it committed
but once would be scarce worth
mentioning may by repetition become
intolerable: by repetition, suppose in
the first place by one and the same
offendor and no more: but suppose
a conspiracy the instances of repetition
may be multiplied by the number
of the conspirators. Leave an injury
of this sort unpunished you see
what a sure recipie is afforded to
a knot of malevolent persons or even
to a single person giving him a sufficient
degree of audacity and to his
intended victim a corresponding degree
of weakness to drive him from the
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the spot or if he has no means of
quitting it to render his life a burden
to him. So
So in the case of a religionist think
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