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... MORAL FACULTY ... By the moral faculty I mean a capacity in the human mind of distinguishing and choosing good and evil , or , in other words , virtue and vice . It is a native principle , and though it be capable of improvement by ...
... MORAL FACULTY ... By the moral faculty I mean a capacity in the human mind of distinguishing and choosing good and evil , or , in other words , virtue and vice . It is a native principle , and though it be capable of improvement by ...
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... moral faculty , MICRONOMIA . The total absence of this faculty I shall call ANOMIA . By the law , referred to in these new genera of vesaniƦ , I mean the law of nature written in the human heart , and which I formerly quoted from the ...
... moral faculty , MICRONOMIA . The total absence of this faculty I shall call ANOMIA . By the law , referred to in these new genera of vesaniƦ , I mean the law of nature written in the human heart , and which I formerly quoted from the ...
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... moral sensibility . How often do the peevish complaints of the night , in sickness , give way to the composing rays of the light of the morning ? Othello cannot murder Desdemona by candlelight , and who has not felt the effects of a ...
... moral sensibility . How often do the peevish complaints of the night , in sickness , give way to the composing rays of the light of the morning ? Othello cannot murder Desdemona by candlelight , and who has not felt the effects of a ...
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from Letters from a Farmer in Penn sylvania Letter | 1 |
Declaration of Independence | 2 |
from The Crisis no | 3 |
Copyright | |
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