A Quote by Adam Clarke
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
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All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
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