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Excerpt from Mrs. Limber''s Raffle, or a Church Fair and Its Victims
Raffiing, which is included in the prohibi tion, still survives and ?ourishes, for the reason that the public conscience, while awakened to the evils of gambling on a large scale and in its grosser forms, winks at the same evil in its lesser proportions, partly as a peccadillo and partly from its serviceableness as an ally of benevolence-a bad means sanctified by a good end. The sym pathies of charitable women, especially, repel the idea of wrong or immorality as inhering in any thing which stimulates the impulse oi benevo lence by the added zest of chance; and accord ingly they set aside the mandate of the law and the moral principle on which it rests, with a charming indifierence to both, characteristic of their sex, which shrinks instinctively from im purity and evil, but smilingly chaperones a seem ingly innocent vice which not only leans to vir tue''s side, but is obtrusively active in her service. Truth, thus wounded in the house of her friends.
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Raffiing, which is included in the prohibi tion, still survives and ?ourishes, for the reason that the public conscience, while awakened to the evils of gambling on a large scale and in its grosser forms, winks at the same evil in its lesser proportions, partly as a peccadillo and partly from its serviceableness as an ally of benevolence-a bad means sanctified by a good end. The sym pathies of charitable women, especially, repel the idea of wrong or immorality as inhering in any thing which stimulates the impulse oi benevo lence by the added zest of chance; and accord ingly they set aside the mandate of the law and the moral principle on which it rests, with a charming indifierence to both, characteristic of their sex, which shrinks instinctively from im purity and evil, but smilingly chaperones a seem ingly innocent vice which not only leans to vir tue''s side, but is obtrusively active in her service. Truth, thus wounded in the house of her friends.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Language - English
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William Allen Butler
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ISBN - 9780331432800
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm
Page Count - 178
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William Allen Butler
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ISBN - 9781331134657
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Page Count - 180
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