counter-inducements

Updated: June 18, 2025

You would speak of inducements and counter-inducements, aids and hindrances; but I cannot but think you are limiting the power of will, and therefore limiting duty. Such views tend to make people easily discontented with each other, and prevent their making efforts to get over offences, and to find out what is lovable in those about them. Ellesmere. Here we are in the deep places again.

Sir Arthur Helps - Friends in Council — First Series