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NONCON — Why ye object of moral abhorrence

It may may be a [matter of] curious speculation
to a the Philosopher to consider, how
it should have happend that this taste in
particular should so frequently have met with such
hard measure, from Legislators beyond what it's influence
upon the happiness interests of Society, at least
beyond t what that influence as recognized
by them, appear to make it deserve—
how it is that when we hear of the Hottentot
Hottentots who &cPartan who never makes his meal of
Horseflesh till it has served him for a
saddle, all that we say of him is that he
is a nasty fellow, when we are told of a
man in whom the amorous appetite has
taken this direction, the cry is "To the Gibbet
or "To the Stake

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Prejudice against it X in favor of the Ancie

Another spectacle amusing enough is, to observe
the distress men are under to keep the peace
between 2 favourite prejudices that are oft
cruelly to jar; The one in disfavor of this
vice; the other in favor of antiquity,
especially antient Greece, which [prejudice]
when close pressed itself cannot deny dissemble to have been so overrun
with it, as to look upon it without eyes of
blame.There is no evasion nor contradiction they will not run into There is no shift they will not corner they will not attemptto
run into to avoid striking against the one or
t'other — as the generality of men cannot stake a character for the bedizen out the object of their affections but they must bedizen it outwith all imaginable ornaments in their own stile Sometimes they will dissemble
& shut their eyes against the fact - sometimes
they will attempt to question it; at others
they will attempt set up a distinction between times
of simplicities & imagined virtue, & times of Luxury effeminacy
& vice declension: tho' in the times of greatest strength
it may be shewn to have been prevalent prevented:
& that in thoughe the times of greatest weakness followd
long after it's extinguishment. At any it's being for the most part extinguished.

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