“When we look at this display of passions, and the consequences of their violence; the unreason which is associated not only with them, but even with good designs and righteous aims; when we see the evil, the vice, the ruin that has befallen the most flourishing kingdoms which the mind of man ever created; we can scarce avoid being filled with sorrow at this universal taint of corruption; and, since this decay is not the work of mere nature, but of the human will-a moral embitterment- a revolt of the good spirit may well be the result of our reflections.”
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