There is no greater rapidity in the judgments of right and wrong, than in these acquired professional judgments.
Moreover, the decisions of conscience are quick only in the simpler cases.

It happens not unfrequently that difficult and protracted deliberations are necessary to a moral judgment.
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Secondly, The alleged similarity of men's moral judgments in all countries and times holds only to a limited degree.
The very great differences among different nations, as to what constitutes right and wrong, are too numerous, striking, and serious, not to have been often brought forward in Ethical controversy.

Robbery and murder are legalized in whole nations.

Macaulay's picture of the Highland Chief of former days is not singular in the experience of mankind.
'His own vassals, indeed, were few in number, but he came of the best blood of the Highlands.