Duelling—Code of Honour [pp. 542-560]

Duelling.
originated by sympathy; but on the impulse of principles which, original in
themselves, originate the sympathy that we feel. When we see an unoffending individual subjected in his person to the wanton insult of a blow, oir
in his property to the inroad of some ruthless depredation-we do not need
to witness the resentment of his bosom, ere a like or a kindred feeling shall
arise as by infection in our own; nor mentally to place ourselves inll his situation, and thus to ascertain how we should feel aggrieved or affronted by
the treatment that we see him to experience. The circumstance of iio)
being the sufferer myself may give a greater authority to my judgmentbecause a judgment unwarped by the passions or the partialities of selfishness; but still it is a judgment that comes forth without that process of internal manLufacture, of which Dr. Smith conceives it to be the resulting
commodity. We judge as immediately and directly on a question of equity between one man and another, as we can onil a question of equality betw een onle
line and another: And when that equity is violated, there is as instantaneous an emotion awakened in the heart of me the spectator, as there is in
the heart of him the sufferer. With him it is anger. With me it is denonminated indignation-the one being the resentment of him who simply feels,
that he has been disturbed or encroached upon the enjoyment of that
which he hath habitually regarded to be his own; the other a resentment
felt on perceiving a like encroachment on that which might equitably (i'
ightfully be regarded as his own."
The X. chapter on "Perfect and Imperfect Obligation," is
properly a continuance of the same subject, and contains a
number of original and discriminating remarks, worthy the attention of the reader.
ART. III.-Duelting-Code of Honour.
A duel is a combat with deadly weapons between two persons agreeably to previous arrangemients. It differs from a boxing match because in it no weapons are used. It differs from a
rencounter, because that is a sudden combat without pre-meditation. The boxing match and rencounter may be as immnoral
and as fatal in their consequences as the duel, but neither of
them is a duel, neither of them, in our country at least, is regulated by the code of honour.
There have been four kinds of duels in the world. The first
was where two hostile armies agreed to select each a champion
to meet and fight. Thus David and Goliah fought. Thus
Diomedes and Xneas fought. The combat between the Hao
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