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place , I having J * een sentex ^ ediby you tof death , but they , having sen * tence p ^ i ^ d ^ ^ oiir ^ ieaiifby . v ^ i ^ b ^ of , guilt , inj ustice . I submit to my punisthji ^ ent , and tUey , to * heir ^ These things , perhaps , areas they should , be , ajkt far the best , „ ; . :
But I wish , O j » en who have condemned me , to prophesy to you what is ne ^ t to come ; fox I am in the position in whic h men are most wont to prophesy , being at the poinfc of death . I say , then , O you who have slain m&—that immediately after my death there will come upon you a far severer punishment than that which you have inflicted upon me . For you have done this , thinking by it to escape from being called
to account for your lives . But I affirm that the very reverse will happen to you . There vyill be many to call you to account , whom I have hitherto restrained , and whom you saw not : and being younger they will give you more annoyance , and you will be still more provoked . For if you think , by putting men to death , to deter others from reproaching you with living amiss , you think ill . That mode of protecting- yourselves is neither very possible , nor very noble : the noblest and the easiest too , is not to cut off other people , but so to order yourselves , aa to obtain
the greatest excellence . Having prophesied thus to those who have condemned me , I leave them . With those who voted for my acquittal , I would gladly , while the officers are busy , and I am tiot yet going to the place where I am to be put to death , cpn ^ rse a ^ ifM 6 ^ bomjt this which has happened . Stay witji nie , my frien 4 s > uajbjl tjien ; for £ would explain to you , as my well wishers , has to There has red
theineapi iQg ^ oir wh ^ now happened me . occur to me , 6 ju dges , (^ pr * you t may rightly call by that n ^ nie , ) spoiething BurpriSjiu / g . . ^ y ^ customed daemonic warning has , in ajl , former , tinies , been very jFreqiient , , $ n \ l given on small occasions , if I j was abo ^ i , to do any thing ; no } fpr jny good . But now , as you see / thoae thmgii have happened to ( me , wliich are generally esteemed the \ vprst ^ 6 f ^ vils ; yet the divine , i ^ Qpitpr diet not warn me , neither when t'left my home , . in the
morning , nor when % came up hither to the ju ^ gmeptj-peat , npr at a ^ ny time when I was speaking ; though on other occasions ; Lliaye pf ) len , while v speaking , experienced the warning , and been checke ^ jp ^ wha ^ I was about to say . But in neither word nor deed conhecteq ^ w ^ ii ifjhi business , have I been checked by the sign . WIVat dp I suppose to , pe the cause ? I will tell you . This which has happened , is mos ^ l ^ ly ? a good ; and those of us who think death an evil are ? prpb ( U ) jy ^ m ^ tffp wrong . For the accustomed warning would certainly have bee ^ gjyeii to me , if what I vva « about to do had not been for my gQo $ , ' , / ., ; , '' /
We may also , from the following considerations , conclude that " the . re is much hope of its being a good . For death must be one gf ^ txyo things : either the dead are incapable of feeling or perceiving any thpg ; of death is , ^ as we are told , a change of abode , a passage of the soul from this to some other place . Now , if after death there be no sensation , but it
be like a sleep in which there are no dreams , death is a triighty gain . For if any one were to choose from his life , a night in which he had sleot withgut dreaming , and qomparing witli this all t ^ e oiher , p jgbls and days of l ^ is life , were required to say in how many of themJie had lived t ^ ter and more pleasantly than in that night , t \ m 0 mej \ i ^ tvif } t a private man Irrierely , but the Great King , would findihat smcii days and nights were soon counted . If then this be death , it is a gain : since
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/33/
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