It tell us, indeed, what we are not to do, but it does not tell us what we ought to do. That is a matter for the individual conscience. No doubt there is public opinion to be reckoned with but the circumstances of men are 80 different that public opinion is, quite properly, very elastic in such matters, and, beyond insisting that all contracts shall be absolutely free and above. board, it places no restriction on their terms.
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