The book Old-Fashioned Ethics And Common-Sense Metaphysics was written by author Thornton, William Thomas, 1813-1880 Here you can read free online of Old-Fashioned Ethics And Common-Sense Metaphysics book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Old-Fashioned Ethics And Common-Sense Metaphysics a good or bad book?
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' 'The uniform reproduction of crime is more clearly marked, andmore capable of being predicted, than are the physical laws connectedwith the disease and destruction of our bodies. The offences of men arethe result not so much of the vices of individual offenders, as of thestate of society into which the individuals are thrown. ' There is here so much looseness and inconsistency of language, that whatis most offensive in it may easily bear more than one interpretation:and the shocking dogma tha...t, in a given state of society, the force ofcircumstances constrains the commission of a certain amount of crime, may possibly admit of being explained away and softened down into thecomparatively harmless proposition that, where all the circumstances, conditions or causes required for the commission of a certain amount ofcrime are present, that amount of crime will certainly be committed. Butwhat is most provoking in Mr. Buckle is the heedlessness or wantonnesswith which he is constantly insisting that the causes in question arenecessarily present and uniformly acting.
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