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to my first letter on the subject, you say, “Is it always possible to foresee all the remote consequences of an action, so as to judge whether it is expedient or not?
And even if it were, would not the time for action be past before we came to the decision?”
In answer to that I made the above mentioned remark.
If we often-time commit good actions without time to reflect on their tendency, does it not argue a natural impulse to good which takes root in the heart before we have time to calculate its growth?
And now tell me plainly what system would you build on the ruins of Paley's?
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