“Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.”
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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
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Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
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Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.
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