Excerpt from The Vicarious Sacrifice: Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation Having shown the steadily converging movement of history on this point, Iwes promising myself, as an advantage thus gained, that I should be regarded, in the treatise that follows, rather as fulfilling the his tory, than as raising a conflict with it. And yet, on further reflection, I have concluded to surrender so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.