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... nature which, if left to itself, were the best and surest guide. It finds out imaginary beings prescribing imaginary laws; and then, it raises imaginary terrors to support a belief in the beings, and an obedience to the laws.—Many ...
... nature which, if left to itself, were the best and surest guide. It finds out imaginary beings prescribing imaginary laws; and then, it raises imaginary terrors to support a belief in the beings, and an obedience to the laws.—Many ...
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... natural appetites and instincts, and not in any positive institution, I shall call natural society. Thus far nature went and succeeded: but man would go farther. The great error of our nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be ...
... natural appetites and instincts, and not in any positive institution, I shall call natural society. Thus far nature went and succeeded: but man would go farther. The great error of our nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be ...
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... nature, it had been impossible to find a number of men, sufficient for such slaughters, agreed in the same bloody purpose; or allowing that they might have come to such an agreement (an impossible supposition), yet the means that simple ...
... nature, it had been impossible to find a number of men, sufficient for such slaughters, agreed in the same bloody purpose; or allowing that they might have come to such an agreement (an impossible supposition), yet the means that simple ...
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... nature in these artificial political distinctions, that we need no other trumpet to kindle us to war and destruction ... natural unpremeditated effect of policy on the unpossessed passions of mankind appears on other occasions. The very ...
... nature in these artificial political distinctions, that we need no other trumpet to kindle us to war and destruction ... natural unpremeditated effect of policy on the unpossessed passions of mankind appears on other occasions. The very ...
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... nature should preserve itself by trampling upon the law of nature. To prove that these sorts of policed societies are a violation offered to nature, and a constraint upon the human mind, it needs only to look upon the sanguinary ...
... nature should preserve itself by trampling upon the law of nature. To prove that these sorts of policed societies are a violation offered to nature, and a constraint upon the human mind, it needs only to look upon the sanguinary ...
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