This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...is probably the result of a wrong speculative opinion, viz., that the gods whom they worsliip are in some cases propitiated by these precious sacrifices, and require them to be made. Under these.circumstances, they hush, with a fortitude worthy of a better cause, the clamours of parental affection; and in the belief ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...is probably the result of a wrong speculative opinion, viz., that the gods whom they worsliip are in some cases propitiated by these precious sacrifices, and require them to be made. Under these.circumstances, they hush, with a fortitude worthy of a better cause, the clamours of parental affection; and in the belief that the will of their gods is paramount to every other claim, they consummate the act of unparalleled cruelty with scarce a whisper of internal condemnation. It is on the ground, also, of a false speculative opinion of a similar kind that we are probably to account for the system of self-torture, such as falling on spikes of iron, dancing with bamboos thrust through the sides, and swinging on hooks, which is to this day so prevalent in some Eastern nations. Conscience naturally condemns any uncalled-for injury to our persons, and all infliction of unnecessary suffering; but when it is a part of men's settled speculative belief that the will of the gods imposes such suffering and exacts such injury, conscience, acting in conformity with the principles of its own nature, necessarily apj)roves. 274. Influence of early associations on moral judgments. Our moral judgments, in the fifth place, are sometimes perplexed, and led in a direction different from what they would otherwise be, by means of early associations.--The principle of association does not operate upon the moral capacity directly; it operates indirectly with considerable influence. When a particular action is to be judged of, it calls up, in the mind of different individuals, different and distinct series of accessory circumstances. It has the effect to place the thing, intellectually considered, in a different position. This difference in the tendencies of the associating princ...
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