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Henry Clay Trumbull wrote A Lie Never Justifiable, with the subtitle A Study in Ethics. The preface says its author makes no claim to exhaustiveness of treatment, but does claim to have attempted a treatment that is exceptionally comprehensive and thorough. The writer says that in the summer of 1863 he was a prisoner of war in Columbia, South Carolina, where the Federal prisoners were confined in the common jail, under military guard.
The text quotes Pope Innocent III as saying that not even to defend our life is it lawful to speak falsely, and quotes Jeremy Taylor as asserting that it is lawful to tell a lie to children or to madmen, because they have no powers of judging. The text says it is evident that the specious arguments put forth by young Chrysostom, in defense of his inexcusable lie of love fifteen centuries ago, have neither been added to nor improved on by any subsequent apologist of lying and deception.
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