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Logic IV. 85
[foreign text]. After a long and forcilbe eulogium of dis-

Though the Greek conception of morality contained precisely the same elements as our own these were differently grouped in their minds and consequently it is really impossible to find English equivalents for [foreign text] and [foreign text]. They are often called Justice and Temperance. I prefer honesty and self command as coming nearer in our modern vernacular to the Greek conceptions although they do not fit with anything like exactitude. The theologians and lawyers between them hav made justice the name of a moral elephantiasis and the loss of all moral significance of the word temperance is the price we have paid for an improvement in the habits of our people. The price was by no means inconsiderable though no doubt the reform came dirt cheap.

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