Doc. of Life (Dick) n. 68

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68. These kinds of murder lie concealed inwardly with man from his birth; but even from childhood he learns to cover them with the principles of civil and moral life which he must needs practise among men in the world; and so far as he loves honour and gain, he is watchful lest they appear. This way of life becomes his external, while these evils form his internal: such is the real nature of man in himself. Now, as he lays aside his external with the body when he dies, and retains his internal, it is evident what a devil he would be unless he were reformed.


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