Shay Cinos
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...what it exactly means .thanksA]? “[A] contract, made to shut off all further enlightenment from the human race, is absolutely null and void even if confirmed by the supreme power, by parliaments, and by the most ceremonious peace treaties. An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very conditional) knowledge, purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which [i.e. of human nature] lies precisely in this progress; and the descendents would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner