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'I am a man under authority, said Richard, 'and my orders will not allow me. Besides thou knowest, Dorothy, although it involves such questions in casuistry as I cannot meet, men say thou art not bound to tell the truth to thine enemy. 'An' thou be mine enemy, Richard, then must thou satisfy thyself, said Dorothy, trying to speak in a tone of offence.
We turn from it with a shudder, reminding the reader only how persistently the statesman then on his trial had advocated conciliation, moderation, and kindness between brethren of the Reformed Church who were not able to think alike on one of the subtlest and most mysterious problems that casuistry has ever propounded.
Why did Jesus Christ come from 'the men of the earth, as the Rabbis called all who had not learned to cover every plain precept with spiders' webs of casuistry?
Just as misanthropy with some persons grows out of benevolence disappointed, so there are certain natures and Kenelm Chillingly's was perhaps one of them in which indifferentism grows out of earnestness baffled. He had promised himself pleasure in renewing acquaintance with his old tutor, Mr. Welby, pleasure in refreshing his own taste for metaphysics and casuistry and criticism.
Rudorff says of it, "For the first time we meet here with a comprehensive, uniform, and methodical system, in the place of the old interpretation of laws and casuistry, of legal opinions and prejudices." Immediately on its publication it acquired great authority, and was commented upon within a few years of the death of its author.
Luther did not know what he was doing in the scientific sociological way in which we know it; but his instinct served him better than knowledge could have done; for it was instinct rather than theological casuistry that made him hold so resolutely to Justification by Faith as the trump card by which he should beat the Pope, or, as he would have put it, the sign in which he should conquer.
It is no more the duty of the moral law to set about codifying laws than it is of the conscience to practise casuistry. Conscience is not a theoretical instructor, but a practical commander. The intelligence, the reason in man it is to which is allotted the function of formulating laws and of deciding what is and what is not in conformity with right.
I was as innocent as the babe unborn when I married Laban as innocent as he was, poor boy, when he would have me; and we all thought he was dead. Oh, why couldn't he have been dead?" "This is murder you have in your heart now, Nancy," the old man said, with who knows what awful pleasure in his casuistry, so pitilessly unerring.
In the sense in which it is true, we need not go to the professor's chair for this maxim; in the sense in which it would serve Paley, it is absolutely false. For instance, fidelity to a trust is a law of immutable morality subject to no casuistry whatever.
It has a gravity out of all proportion to its use, and we call it a fundamental principle of government. Whatever we want to do is hallowed and justified, if it can be made to appear as a deduction from that sentence. To put new wine in old bottles is one of the aims of legal casuistry. Reformers practice it.
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