Proper conduct in life is much better guaranteed when the good and evil consequences of actions are understood, than when they are merely believed on authority.
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- Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical. Main text, paragraph beginning One superiority is that the pursuance of it generates right conce. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16510/16510-h/16510-h.htm
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