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The first question to be proposed by a ra tional being 1s, not What 1s profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, promirient, most conspicuous, among the Objects of human thought and pursuit. If we cast it down from its supremacy, if we inquire first for our inter ests, and then for our'duties, We shall certainly err. We can never see the right clearly and fully, but by making it our first concern. Judgment can be just or wise, but that wh is built on the conviction of the paramo worth and importance of duty. This is th fundamental truth, the supreme law of reasoni,1 and the mind which does not start from this, in its inquiries into human affairs is doomed to great, perhaps fatal error.
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