ABSTRACT
I regard you as vicious, but I do not consider the vicious as proper objects of indignation. I consider you as a machine; you are not constituted, I am afraid, to be greatly useful to your fellow men; but you did not make yourself; you are just what circumstances irresistibly impelled you to be. I am sorry for your ill propensities; but I entertain no enmity against you, nothing but benevolence.
