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For, when it is unable to swallow us up with its allurements, and through its offences to make us one with itself, it endeavors through sufferings to drive us out, and through pains to cast us forth; always laying snares for us by the example of its sins, or else visiting its fury upon us through the torment of its pains.
Penal offences are of course tried in the Courts and punished with imprisonment. It is indeed curious after travelling in America and our colonies, to find, sturdy, rough, independent characters behaving with extraordinary meekness and docility. Drunken brawls and promiscuous revolver shooting are unknown in the Congo, for the simple reason, that it is impossible up country to procure drink.
'A father, and a gracious aged man, Whose reverence the head-lugged bear would lick, Most barbarous, most DEGENERATE! 'have you madded. If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down, to tame these vile offences 'Twill come, HUMANITY must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
All this affection, aided by my natural mildness, was scarcely sufficient to prevent my seeking, by fresh offences, a return of the same chastisement; for a degree of sensuality had mingled with the smart and shame, which left more desire than fear of a repetition.
Nevertheless, the minister might have attempted the task, and the responsibility is heavy upon the man who shared the power and directed the career, but who never ceased to represent the generous resistance of individuals to frantic cruelty, as offences against God and the King.
All good Americans lament this and are ashamed of it, but it never enters into the heads of even the most lugubrious American moralists that Kentucky or any other State should be disfranchised and remanded to the condition of a Territory, because the offences against the person committed in it are so numerous, and the punishment of them, owing to popular sympathy or apathy, so difficult.
In the third place, it is to be observed that this public and periodic expulsion of devils is commonly preceded or followed by a period of general license, during which the ordinary restraints of society are thrown aside, and all offences, short of the gravest, are allowed to pass unpunished.
"Retract the hasty words you uttered just now; they express more than you intended." "I cannot! I mean all I said. Offences against God's law, which you consider pardonable and which the world winks at and permits, and even defends I regard as grievous sins. I believe that every man who kills another in a duel deserves the curse of Cain, and should be shunned as a murderer.
Private Ethics is not liable to the same difficulties as Legislation in dealing with such offences. Of the three departments of Moral Duty Prudence, Probity, and Beneficence the one that least requires and admits of being enforced by legislative punishment is the first Prudence. It can only be through some defect of the understanding, if people are wanting in duty to themselves.
Failing to obtain redress in England, Richard betook himself to Rome in the spring of 1231. There he regaled the pope's ears with the offences of Hubert, and of the worldly bishops who were his tools. In August, Richard's death in Italy left the Church of Canterbury for three years without a pastor.
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