As a general rule, the strength of the conscience depends on the care bestowed on its cultivation.

Although we have had to recognize primitive distinctions among men as to the readiness to take on moral training, still, the better the training, the stronger will be the conscientious determinations.
But this admission has the effect of reducing the part performed by nature to a small and uncertain amount.

Even if there were native preferences, they might be completely overborne and reversed by an assiduous education.

The difference made by inculcation is so great, that it practically amounts to everything.

A voice so feeble as to be overpowered by foreign elements would do no credit to nature.
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