Belief and Will
Belief and Will
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信念与意志
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H. R. Marshall
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绝对正确还是错误？因为没有任何道德立法的基础是纯粹的伦理。但相关的问题是：禁止性立法一旦颁布，是有害还是有益？它能教育国民养成健康的节制情绪吗？或者它会被如此公然公然地违反，从而降低公共道德的基调，减少对法律和秩序的尊重？它会促进自我控制还是滋生虚伪？它会给国家带来祝福还是灾难？如果它会有好的和坏的影响，它的优点或缺点会更大吗？在塑造我们的民族性格方面，它的残余影响将是什么？这些问题现在不在我的职权范围之内。如果我能说明这些问题是合理的，并且提出这些问题是我们找到作为公民责任的唯一途径，那么我的任务就完成了。对这些问题的一个满意的答复不能以任何随意的方式给出，而必须包括仔细研究我们的社会条件和其他地方类似条件下禁止性立法的实际结果。D. j.弗雷泽。圣约翰，新不伦瑞克。
absolutely right or wrong? because no moral legislation has its basis in pure ethics. But the pertinent questions are: Will prohibitory legislation, if enacted, do harm or good ? Will it educate the nation into a healthy temperance sentiment ? or will it be so openly and flagrantly violated as to lower the tone of public morality and lessen respect for law and order? Will it promote self-control or breed hypocrisy? Will it bring a national blessing or a national calamity? If it will have both good and evil effects, will its advantages or disadvantages be greater ? What will be its residuum of influence in moulding our national character ? These questions it does not lie within my province now to answer. My task is completed, if I have made it clear that they are legitimate questions, and that the asking of them is the only way by which we can find our duty as citizens. A satisfactory answer to them cannot be given in any off-hand manner, but must involve careful study of our social conditions and of the actual results of prohibitory legislation in similar conditions elsewhere. D. J. FRASER. ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK.