The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
人类的心灵被设计来寻找并发现证实其已有信念的证据。