Can it be anything but compliance with the world which makes you find things probable? Will you make us believe that it is truth, and that if duelling were not the fashion, you would find it probable that they might fight, considering the matter in itself?
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Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one. Vince in bono malum.[374] (Saint Augustine.)
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Universal.—Ethics and language are special, but universal sciences.
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Probability.—Each one can employ it; no one can take it away.
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They allow lust to act, and check scruples; whereas they should do the contrary.