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“After having
wandered through the wild mazes of philosophy,” he
writes, we “return to the simple dictates of nature,” and
“come to think like other men”

For in Jeter’s view, copyright violation is motivated largely by resentment: “there were certain people who loved the art—the music, the books, the pictures, whatever it might be—but who actively hated the creators of the same. Hated them from envy, jealousy, spite—from just that gnawing, infuriating sense that the creators could do something they couldn’t” (239).