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5515. MORAL SENSE, Innate.—[continued].

I sincerely believe in the
general existence of a moral instinct. I think
it the brightest gem with which the human character
is studded, and the want of it as more
degrading than the most hideous of the bodily
deformities.—
To Thomas Law. Washington ed. vi, 351.
(M. 1814)