“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.