When I consider that more sin is the only anodyne for sin, and that the only way to cure the ache of conscience is to harden it, I marvel that even so many as do essay the bitter and hopeless way of repentance and reform.

In the main, the pangs of conscience, so much vaunted by some, do most certainly drive ten deeper into sin where they bring one back to virtue." "But," remarked Henry, "suppose there were no memory, and men did forget their acts, they would remain just as responsible for them as now." "Precisely; that is, not at all," replied the doctor.
"You don't mean to say there is no such thing as responsibility, no such thing as justice.

Oh, I see, you deny free will.

You are a necessitarian." The doctor waved his hand rather contemptuously.
"I know nothing about your theological distinctions; I am a doctor.

I say that there is no such thing as moral responsibility for past acts, no such thing as real justice in punishing them, for the reason that human beings are not stationary existences, but changing, growing, incessantly progressive organisms, which in no two moments are the same.