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on of moral disapproval, the law of identity has yet another useful purpose in practical ethics: It serves the welcome purpose of providing an excuse for infractions of the moral law. There w
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hysic wit milk into a tea-cup before the tea. I was surprised to discover that it was an ethical, and not an ?sthetic problem; for I soon elicited the fact that it was done because it was "right."
ed when this fact is pointed out to them. The late Sir Leslie Stephen, when travelling by railway, fell into conversation with an officer of the Salvation Army, who tried hard to convert him
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