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Some of his observations are just and useful; but upon such a subject who can think without often thinking right? It is, however, not to be omitted, that he appears always propense towards the side of mercy. "If a poor man," says he, "steals in his want a watch, or a few pieces, from one to whom the loss is inconsiderable, is this a reason for condemning him to death?"
If, then, I thought that this world were a castoff, or a wrecked and ruined, world; if I thought that the human generations had come out from the dark eclipse of some pre-existent state, or from the dark shadow of Adam's fall, broken, blighted, accursed, propense to all evil, and disabled for all good; and if, in consequence, I believed that unnumbered millions of ignorant heathens, and thousands around me, children but a day old in their conscious moral probation, and men, untaught, nay, ill-taught, misled and blind, were doomed, as the result of this life-experiment, to intense, to unending, to infinite pain and anguish, most certainly I should be miserable in such a state, and nothing could make life tolerable to me.
The most immediate effects of pleasure and pain are the propense and averse motions of the mind; which are diversified into volition, into desire and aversion, grief and joy, hope and fear, according as the pleasure or pain changes its situation, and becomes probable or improbable, certain or uncertain, or is considered as out of our power for the present moment.
I shall provide in them a particular antidote to those defects to which nature has made you most propense. But I have yet another reason to inforce your attention to what I am about to write. I was, as I have said, the instructor of your choice.
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