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1908 Nov 11
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would dictate, while another time it may be such that the man
shall say to himself, What I am going to do will not be just; but
I don't care for that: it will be a satisfaction to me to do it, and
I will do it." But if that man ever becomes determined to do what
is just so far as he can make out what would be the just course,
so long as that Determination lasts he will never wittingly do what
is unjust. We may state the matter thus: Let there be two
Characters, or suchnesses (in this case, the being such as justice permits and the
being such as justice forbids,) which are Incompossible, i.e., are
such that they can both be possessed only by something whose
being consists in a mere possibility and cannot actually be carried out without
some restriction, while that which actually occurs singly, as well as that which is
General, i.e., which allows some latitude in its actualization can at most

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