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[T]he essential cause of fiendish guilt, when it makes itself existential and periphericâ [â¦] I find the only explanation of a moral phænomenon not very uncommon in the last moments of condemned felonsâviz. the obstinate denial, not of the main guilt, which might be accounted for by ordinary motives, but of some particular act, which had been proved beyond all possibility of doubt, and attested by the criminal's own accomplices and fellow-sufferers in their last confessions: [â¦]
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