that no possible amount of
community that us
cal coercion.
moral influence or peremptory
would suffice to give immediate relief
by
a
sensible diminution of its attendant evils; and that therefore we must
recognize and tolerate its existence,
and endeavour to
3.
appear remedial.
mitigate what
But I am not aware that the
social evils of
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personal liberty and... privacy
- privacy, but I have no hesitation
- and a disturbance of
in saying that it might with facility
be so far repressed as to remove much
of the mischief which now it may
be supposed to occasion, and even
if this were not the
the measure
proposed would but
heighten the disease and infuse into
the community a larger
amount
of
this moral virus. For what is the proposal? Not to alleviate the sufferings of the victims of this vice, but to bring "before the public and the face of the
world those scenes
of vicious indulgence
which hitherto have shunned the
light of day and found their fitting
stage
in darkness and
obscurity.
Is not this to obtrude vice upon