Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
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That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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