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 —"Consider, Sennor; always make allowance for accident. In this case, the actions are unjust only because our understanding cannot divine the motives. Who is he that boasts penetration sufficient to explore at the first glance every secret stimulus or cause of a design? For my part, I believe murder is, in some instances, justifiable. On a piece of wreck which can only carry one man with safety in a storm, the combat between two, tending to secure life by the death of a competitor, is justifiable by the first law of self-preservation."Object bears upon object throughout the creation. Each death opens the gate of some new existence; and the general good cannot always be brought about without individual harm."

—"Every body is not of the same opinion, Don Pedro; for my part, I am lost in the flattering dream."

"Don't you-take it quite for a dream, Don Carlos; my precepts are drawn from experience. You don't know the company that offered itself to you. Remember Jago and his happiness."