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The First Duty Of Man Is To Take None Of The Principles Of Conduct Upon Trust; To Do Nothing Without A Clear And Individual Conviction That It Is Right To Be Done.

I Shall Attempt To Prove Two Things: First, That The Actions And Dispositions Of Mankind Are The Offspring Of Circumstances And Events, And Not Of Any Original Determination That They Bring Into The World; And, Secondly, That The Great Stream Of Our Voluntary Actions Essentially Depends, Not Upon The Direct And Immediate Impulses Of Sense, But Upon The Decisions Of The Understanding.

If He Who Employs Coercion Against Me Could Mould Me To His Purposes By Argument, No Doubt He Would. He Pretends To Punish Me Because His Argument Is Strong; But He Really Punishes Me Because His Argument Is Weak.

We Cannot Perform Our Tasks To The Best Of Our Power, Unless We Think Well Of Our Own Capacity.

Make Men Wise, And By That Very Operation You Make Them Free. Civil Liberty Follows As A Consequence Of This; No Usurped Power Can Stand Against The Artillery Of Opinion.