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But when the first fervors of religion began to decay, and fraud and the temptations to fraud to increase, they trusted no longer to the conscience of the party.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “But when the first fervors of religion began to decay, and fraud and the temptations to fraud to increase, they trusted…”
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Burke discusses the decline of religious fervor and its impact on trust in personal conscience within legal matters.
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