![]() What good does it do to talk boastfully unless you speak consistently? Quid attinet glōriōsē loquīnisi cōnstanter loquāre? (Fin. Such are libet, licet, oportet, decet, placet, vīsum est, pudet, piget, necesse est, opus est, etc. The infinitive is used as the apparent subject with many impersonal verbs and expressions. fAccording to the utilitarian theory of ethics, the sense of right and wrong is not innate in us.454.eOr “verbs and nouns,” the two main divisions of human speech.dThe doctrine of the evolution of society, as here set forth, is based on Lucretius, De rerum natura, v.cAppeal is here made to the Epicureans, whose moral philosophy rested on a distinctly utilitarian basis.19.55, “recte facta omnia aequalia, omnia peccata paria esse.” bThis was a doctrine of the Stoics cf.of great antiquity and consequently very valuable. If you will but turn over the annals and records of the world, you must needs confess that justice was born of the fear of injustice f Between right and wrong Nature can draw no such distinction as between things gainful and harmful, what is to be sought and what is to be shunned nor will Reason ever prove this, that the sin is one and the For before Helen’s day a wench was the most dreadful cause of war, but deaths unknown to fame were theirs whom, snatching fickle love in wild-beast fashion, a man stronger in might struck down, like the bull in a herd. Thenceforth they began to cease from war, to build towns, and to frame laws that none should thieve or rob or commit adultery. cĩ9When living creatures d crawled forth upon primeval earth, dumb, shapeless beasts, they fought for their acorns and lairs with nails and fists, then with clubs, and so on step by step with the weapons which need had later forged, until they found words and names e wherewith to give meaning to their cries and feelings. Feelings and customs rebel, and so does Expedience herself, the mother, we may say, of justice and right. 1041 ff.)įingered by Evander, a is he for such offence, ot because when hungry he snatched up first a pullet served on my side of the dish, to be less pleasing in my eyes? What shall I do if he commits a theft, or betrays a trust, or disowns his bond? Those whose creed is that all sins are much on a par b are at a loss when they come to face facts. 3quibus sensus, vocesque, notarent Housman ( cf.nec Natura potest iusto secernere iniquum, dividit ut bona diversis, fugienda petendis nec vincet Ratio hoc, tantundem ut peccet idemque iura inventa metu iniusti fateare necesse est, tempora si fastosque velis evolvere mundi. nam fuit ante Helenam cunnus taeterrima belli causa, sed ignotis perierunt mortibus illi, quos venerem incertam rapientis more ferarum 110 viribus editior caedebat ut in grege taurus. Cum prorepserunt primis animalia terris, mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter 101 unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus, atque ita porro pugnabant armis, quae post fabricaverat usus, donec verba, quibus voces sensusque notarent, 3 nominaque invenere dehinc absistere bello, 105 oppida coeperunt munire et ponere leges, ne quis fur esset, neu latro, neu quis adulter. Euandri manibus tritum deiecit 1: ob hanc rem, aut positum ante mea 2 quia pullum in parte catini sustulit esuriens, minus hoc iucundus amicus sit mihi? quid faciam si furtum fecerit, aut si 95 prodiderit commissa fide sponsumve negarit? quis paria esse fere placuit peccata, laborant cum ventum ad verum est: sensus moresque repug- nant atque ipsa Utilitas, iusti prope mater et aequi.
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