The common neglect of the present hour is more shameful and criminal, as no man is betrayed to it by errour, but admits it by negligence. Of the instability of life, the weakest understanding never thinks wrong, though the strongest often omits to think justly: reason and experience are always ready to inform us of our real state; but we refuse to listen to their suggestions, because we feel our hearts unwilling to obey them: but, surely, nothing is more unworthy of a reasonable being, than to shut his eyes, when he sees the road which he is commanded to travel, that he may deviate with fewer reproaches from himself: nor could any motive to tenderness, except the consciousness that we have all been guilty of the same fault, dispose us to pity those who thus consign themselves to voluntary ruin. {The end of etext of volume 4} Notes about this etext: This etext needs spellchecked! Especially the non-english words! Greek letters are encoded in <gr> brackets, and the letters are based on Adobe's Symbol font. The "markings" are not the correct symbol but rather the closest equivalent "accented" character. the encoded characters used include: AE, ae, oe, ', !, <?>, :, ^, OE, and <S>. Hebrew occurs once and is encoded in <hb> format with a mnemonic that has not been standardized yet-- thus needs checked. three flavors of hyphen are used in the .wp6 edition: 1) [Hard hyphen] '-' 2) [Soft hyphen] '-' 3) [Soft hyphen EOL] " (seen in reveal codes only) (The [Soft hyphens EOL] are retained from the hardcopy word-breaks) Two "tricks" are implemented in the .wp6 edition for ease in converting to PVASCII for Gutenberg: 1) an extra space at the end of a sentence that occurs at the EOL position allows easier text "reflow" and 2) there is a space just before a [Lft Tab] to "protect" those tabs from being converted to Gutenberg's space between paragraphs without corrupting poetry and other indented text that should not be "reflowed" or be otherwise treated as a "paragraph". i.e. only [Hrt][Lft Tab] get converted to [Hrt][Hrt] and not [Hrt] [Lft Tab] cases. <sc > small caps have not been encoded in this etext. "Emphasis" (whatever those are) italics have a * mark. The ae and oe ligiture in the italics cases, MIGHT be and probably are transposed! (i can't tell the difference) Footnotes are moved to end of paragraphs cited. editorial comments in curly {brackets} ************************** FYI ************************** "Larsen EB-11" encode scheme includes: (taken, in part, from EB-11 guide to proofreaders) Acute French <ecole Grave Italian citt<aoe Umlaut/Diaeresis German <uber Circumflex French <ile Hacek Czech ha<cv>ek Macron Sanskrit s<u'm>tra Breve Persian(?) Ch<au>m Ring Swedish <AA>ngstr<om Tilde Spanish se<n?>or Dot Hebrew Ab<i.>ram Cedilla French gar<c,>on