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Suggested to Mr. Seward to at once elevate the American question to a higher region, to represent it to Europe in its true, holy character, as a question of right, freedom, and humanity. Then it will be impossible for England to quibble about technicalities of the international laws; then we can beat England with her own arms and words, as England in 1824, &c., recognized the Greeks as belligerents, on the plea of aiding freedom and humanity. The Southern insurrection is a movement similar to that of the Neapolitan brigands, similar to what partisans of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany or Modena may attempt, similar to any for argument's sake supposed insurrection of any Russian boj
These are all the writings placed by the author as subsequent to Justin Martyr. As I desire to take the author on his own ground whenever it is possible to do so, I shall, for argument's sake, take the author's account of the age and authority of these documents. I shall consequently assume with him that With respect to the short Epistle of Polycarp, I shall be patient of his assumption that
Grant, for argument's sake, that all the Canaanites were sentenced to unconditional extermination; as there was no reversal of the sentence, how can a right to enslave them, be drawn from such premises? The punishment of death is one of the highest recognitions of man's moral nature possible.
Your instinct is always to do something energetic. But supposing, for argument's sake, that we had him arrested to-night, what on earth the better off should we be for that? We could prove nothing against him. There's the devilish cunning of it!
'You'll go broke quick at that game! "'Allow me to remind you that that is ma own affaih, suh, says ole man Sanford, 'n' the argument's over. His ideas date back so far they're mildewed, but I see I can't change 'em. He don't belong around a race track no more'n your grandmother! "'All right, Mr. Sanford! I says. 'You're the doctor! We'll handle him just like you say.
For argument's sake we must assume that the great producers of wealth are men who have no other motive ultimately than ambition for themselves and their families, and would allow nothing of what they produce to be taken from them by any other human being except under the pressure of some incidental necessity.
Whig and Tory, yellow and blue, the immemorial shuffling of Cabinet cards, the tricks and honours he seemed to live outside them all. He was no clubman in 'The best club in England. He did not debate for argument's sake or to upset Ministers.
Granting for argument's sake that Mind is the only reality, then the test of reality must be this that something exists in or for a mind; in so far, then, as evil, pain, and so forth exist, as Christian Science tells us, "only" in some mind in so far as "disease is a thing of thought" evil, pain, disease, etc., must pro tanto be real, nay, the most real of realities, for where except in mind could they exist?
It remains, therefore, that it must be some merely physical faculty, like that of fearing, hungering, or enjoying the sexual appetite." A. "Absurd, Socrates!" S. "That is the argument's concern, not ours: let us follow manfully whithersoever it may lead us." A. "Lead on, thou sophist!" S. "It was agreed, then, that he who does what he thinks right, does so by the spirit of truth-was it not?"
"He was never for throwing away old shoes till he had got new ones." Naturally reformers of less moderate nature did not love him. He detested argument for argument's sake. There was nothing crafty or subtle in his nature. He poured out the honest convictions of his heart without regard to the form in which he might express them.
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