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Those who wish to indulge their curiosity concerning the details of the system, may easily satisfy themselves at the present day. The flood of light which has been poured upon the subject more than justifies the horror and the rebellion of the Netherlanders. The period during which torture might be inflicted from day to day was unlimited in duration.
"Captain Carse is gallant, but the responsibility's not his. I have a little machine a trifle, but most ingenious at extracting secrets which persons attempt to hold from me. The Captain couldn't help himself, you see " "It was not necessary to tell me that," said Leithgow. "Of course," the Eurasian agreed and for the first time seriously; "but let me suggest that the end justifies the means.
In the first place, I am heart sorry for the step I took; but you know it was oppression and persecution that drove me to it." "Fergus," she replied, "that's no excuse. Persecution may come upon us, but that's no reason why we should allow it to drive us into evil and crime. Don't you know that it's such conduct that justifies the persecutors in their own eyes and in the eyes of the world.
It is true that Wogan, in the letter from which we have quoted, after stating that the exiles, "in the midst of their hard usage abroad, could not be brought to repent of their obstinacy," justifies their refusal by the way in which the Articles of Limerick were afterwards disregarded by the Irish Parliament.
It is this difficulty, this primary dependence on others, which develops into the child's first religion, that perpetuates the infantile character of human creeds; and, what is worse, generates the hideous bigotry which justifies that sad reflection of Lucretius: 'Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum! TO turn again to narrative, and to far less serious thoughts.
Indeed the South German reformists do not really pretend that it is any one particular reform that justifies laying aside or temporarily subordinating the fight against capitalist government.
THUS far I have been dealing with the wrong which the Prohibition Amendment commits against the vital principle of any national Constitution, the principle which alone justifies the idea of a Constitution a body of organic law removed from the operation of the ordinary processes of popular rule and representative government.
There's only one thing in the world which justifies that, and it isn't a flower. Mavovo and Hans had followed us into the enclosure, and I overheard a conversation between them which amused me.
The defender justifies this by the argument from a repeater-watch, of which Paley and others have made so much use. We at once ascribe the structure and movement of a repeater-watch to intelligent creation. "No things are not equal," says the atheist.
as written in a measure ridiculous and burlesque, and justifies his answer, by observing, that Addison uses the same numbers in the scene of Rosamond, between Grideline and sir Trusty: "How unhappy is he," &c. That the measure is the same in both passages, must be confessed, and both poets, perhaps, chose their numbers properly; for they both meant to express a kind of airy hilarity.
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