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 From: coteto@NOnbnet.nb.caSPAM 
  
 horrified at conduct so extravagant? 
  
 This resting in ignorance is a monstrous thing, and they who pass their life 
 in it must be made to feel its extravagance and stupidity, by having it 
 shown to them, so that they may be confounded by the sight of their folly. 
 For this is how men reason, when they choose to live in such ignorance of 
 what they are and without seeking enlightenment. "I know not," they say... 
  
 196. Men lack heart; they would not make a friend of it. 
  
 197. To be insensible to the extent of despising interesting things, and to 
 become insensible to the point which interests us most. 
  
 198. The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great 
 things, indicates a strange inversion. 
  
 199. Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, 
 where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who 
 remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, 
 looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the 
 condition of men. 
  
 200. A man in a dungeon, ignorant whether his sentence be pronounced and 
 having only one hour to learn it, but this hour enough, if he knew that it 
 is pronounced, to obtain its repeal, would act unnaturally in spending that 
 hour, not in ascertaining his sentence, but in playing piquet. So it is 
 against nature that man, etc. It is making heavy the hand of God. 
  
 Thus not only the zeal of those who seek Him proves God, but also the 
 blindness of those who seek Him not. 
  
 201. All the objections of this one and that one only go against themselves, 
 and not against religi 
  
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  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)