"There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of."

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"There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of."

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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

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"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another."

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