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Let
us return again to the same point, and ask what vices existed in this his only son of
such importance as to make him incur the displeasure of his father. But it is notorious
he had no vices. His father then was mad to bate him whom he had begotten, without any
cause. But he was the most reasonable and sensible of men. This, then, is evident, that,
if the father was not crazy, nor his son profligate, the father had no cause for
displeasure, nor the son for crime.
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