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PUNISHMENT. ILLUSIONS on the Subject
Not wished for, against Keymis.
It is a contst of a distinguished very beautiful indeed in a Boctrial view, but which is
rather out of place in a subject work of that kind in which in which truth and not Beauty at variance with Truth is the [great] one thing needful [is the graced declaration] that a man
as grow as when he committs a crime, has a vast desire to be punished for it. them If it means that
punishment under any inventiveness is desirable to men in itself: never yet had I ever
hear of such a man. If it means, that a man wishes for a punishment under a
confused notion of its exonerating him from a greater, it is as if any one born to dis-
cover that men have a vast desire to have their legs cut off. True it is, if their
legs are unarguably , in order to save their lives — thus true it is false, thus only is it also true that a man may with
to suffer undergo the finish suffering conflicted by human justice the hand of Man in the hopes of [investing] by
an the unequal exchange the indefinite vengeance expected from the wrath of heaven.
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