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Page 53
Fanaticism in religious meetings has produced the most obstinate and
melancholy cases of despair , that have come under my own observation .
Intelligence , chastened by religion , are the surest safeguards against this state
of misery ...
Fanaticism in religious meetings has produced the most obstinate and
melancholy cases of despair , that have come under my own observation .
Intelligence , chastened by religion , are the surest safeguards against this state
of misery ...
Page 101
Here is the solution of the problem , why some particular eras have produced
greater men than others . It was the occasion , not the difference in native mental
powers . Great occasions ever have , and ever will produce great men .
Here is the solution of the problem , why some particular eras have produced
greater men than others . It was the occasion , not the difference in native mental
powers . Great occasions ever have , and ever will produce great men .
Page 122
The two first produce inequalities among savages in the dense forest , in all the
rudeness of nature — the two last produce it in the most refined society . Absurd
as it is , riches often give a man more consequence than talent , which , joined ...
The two first produce inequalities among savages in the dense forest , in all the
rudeness of nature — the two last produce it in the most refined society . Absurd
as it is , riches often give a man more consequence than talent , which , joined ...
Page 123
... the inequalities produced by them , would not produce as great a reform in
society , as many imagine , and that these sources of happiness are more
imaginary , than real . Artificial wants and false pride , indulgence in idleness and
vice -a ...
... the inequalities produced by them , would not produce as great a reform in
society , as many imagine , and that these sources of happiness are more
imaginary , than real . Artificial wants and false pride , indulgence in idleness and
vice -a ...
Page 248
Without this knowledge , we are liable to open the wrong valves , or open the
right ones so unskilfully , as to produce confusion , perhaps mischief . The vicious
are restrained and reclaimed by example , persuasion , reproof , and coercion ;
all ...
Without this knowledge , we are liable to open the wrong valves , or open the
right ones so unskilfully , as to produce confusion , perhaps mischief . The vicious
are restrained and reclaimed by example , persuasion , reproof , and coercion ;
all ...
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| Title | The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things: Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | The author, 1848 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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