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A competitive patriotism involves ill-will toward all other states and a secret and constant desire to see them thrashed and subordinated. It follows that a good government, while it justifies this governmental patriotism in its subjects, disallows it in all other men.
Contrariwise, God's disallowing of any thing, plainly implies that it is against his will, and so of divine right prohibited, and unlawful. God allows or disallows things not because they are good or evil; but things are, therefore, good or evil, because he approves or disallows them. Now God approves or disallows things divers ways: 1. By commending or discommending.
The objection of Speusippus, that irrational creatures are not to be admitted as witnesses, Aristotle disallows, seeing that rational and irrational agree on the point; and the thing that seems to all, must be true. The arguments of the Platonists, to prove that pleasure is not good, are next examined.
The government does nothing to increase either their number or their usefulness, the parishes being obliged to maintain them; and even this source is sometimes cut off, for not unfrequently the minister disallows this heading in the municipal budget, and pockets the money himself.
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