Examples: If a law permits one to practise polygamy, or commands one toblaspheme religion, one may not use the permission or obey. What do you say, Darell? Darell shrugged his shoulders. hen one does not wish to believe, or to believe so readily, on theword of God alone, but feels one must call in other testimony tosupport it. Titus takes off his hat when passing any church, asa mark of respect for the good they do.
(a) Thus, if the enemynation will be ruined as the price of one's obtaining some small right,charity would urge that one abstain from war. That is all. Just as we distinguished above between bad thoughts and thoughtson things that are bad, so may we distinguish between bad desires anddesires of what is bad. (a) Thus, it iscaused by pride, for one who inordinately desires his own excellencewill easily grieve over what he regards as the lessening of thatexcellence by the excellence of another.
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