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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 told on the minds of menas they seldom failed to be come to be reduced to practise, and men are bidden to set with their hands
"The timid prudence of the present moment"
Beccari
before them under the purpose of 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 we see that .
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 then models
of intellectual & moral excellence,
exceeded only by our Ancestors who were
exceeded by theirs, & so on in a climax
to those worthies of those times when whom the Roman
Tyrant formed
When men lay that mighty prodigious a stress that is sometimes often done upon the contingent contingent danger prospect of
unknown & 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 of the inconveniences as they apprehend back again to the original state of the subject , than it was from that state to the
Obstinacy a companion to timidity
Timidity of inconveniences before
the attempt —
Obstinacy in when men engaged after the attempt
in spite of real ones after they were felt
innovation: 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 toobold an axiom to lay down establish, "that this retrograde
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