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"Anan!" said the old man, looking up enquiringly into the face of the
philosopher.
"Merely that it has not been so long known in morals, as the other
countries of Christendom."
"So much the better, so much the better. I am no great admirator of
your old morals, as you call them, for I have ever found, and I have
liv'd long as it were in the very heart of natur', that your old
morals are none of the best. Mankind twist and turn the rules of the
Lord, to suit their own wickedness, when their devilish cunning has
had too much time to trifle with His commands."
"Nay, venerable hunter, still am I not comprehended. By morals I do
not mean the limited and literal signification of the term, such as is
conveyed in its synonyme, morality, but the practices of men, as
connected with their daily intercourse, their institutions, and their
laws."
"And such I call barefaced and downright wantonness and waste,"
interrupted his sturdy disputant.
"Well, be it so," returned the Doctor, abandoning the explanation in
despair.


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