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And it would weigh very hardly on my conscience, in the course of my practice, if I should chance to send any unlucky patient 'ad infernum, which, being interpreted, is 'to the realms below. Oh that I was rich enough to live without profession! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon my pen? Such were the Ides of March for Hawthorne.
Secondly, with regard to betting and gambling, which may be classed with drinking, as the fruitful parent of bad company, and a descensus ad infernum: do you not think a boy may be best guarded against a habit of betting, which is so likely to lead on to gambling, by taking the same line as a boy of my acquaintance took with his mother when she was warning him against it: "Well, mother, you see, it always does seem so mean to me to get a fellow's money from him without giving him anything in return; it always does seem so like prigging, and some of our fellows are awfully hard up, and can't afford to lose a penny."
There are men, who seem stupid, yet generally go right; there are also clever men, who appear to have the art of blundering wisely "sapienter descendunt in infernum," as the ancients have it; and some of these latter will even lie on their backs, after a fall, and lift up their voices, and prove to you that in the nature of things they ought to have gone up, and their being down is monstrous; illusory.
These are almost the words of the public confessional prayer in the Kirchenbuch of the General Council of the Lutheran Church in America: "Also dans alle meine Natur und Wesensträflich und verdammlich ist." Erl. Ed., op. var. arg., IV, 89 aq. "Si enim suum malum sentiret, infernum sentiret, nam infernum in se ipso habet." See this volume, p. 115f. Erl. Ed., op. ex. lat., XIX, 1-154. Erl. Ed.
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