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 ¬obligations" I indignantly answered, " are sure to be imperfectly obeyed — human laws ought to come in positive aid of all moral duties which they can practically deal with, and it is impossi- ble to deny that those for the protection of the lower world are of that description, since both the branches of your most enlightened legislature (as you yourself have related) did solemnly pro- nounce that they were. Nevertheless I highly respect your deference as a subject to their united opinions, though they differed at first/row each other, and afterwards from themselves ; but such absurd inconsistency mustnotthink of travelling into another world for approbation or assent. In England, be assured, it would excite the disgust of an enlightened people, as it now provokes mine." ¬The account of this strange proceeding ac- corded so little with what I had before heard from Morven in praise of the councils of Armata, and being forewarned by him not to rely too im- plicitly on my excellent young companion in matters which demanded the experience of age, ¬I after- ¬ /n