The sphere and duties of government, tr. from [Ideen zu einem Versuch &c.] by J. Coulthard |
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Page 35 - For experience frequently convinces us that just where law has imposed no fetters, morality most surely binds; the idea of external coercion is one entirely foreign to an institution which, like marriage, reposes only on inclination and an inward sense of duty; and the results of such coercive institutions do not at all correspond to the intentions in which they originate.