原文，不过是我默写后修改过的。
感觉特别难。学习花了很长时间，一段段来。每个词语，句型弄懂后默写，然后发现各种各样的细节错误，在纠正过程中，加强了对词语应用的把握，加深了对文章的理解
因为每一次纠正我都是过了一会通过回忆修改的，里面估计还有些许错误。若你发现了，也算你的收获哟。
Lesson 60 THE MORAL COURAGE
Although truth and justice maybe the most powerful impulses to show moral courage, there are others . Compassion is one of these. Tentatively it can be suggested that this is the main influence upon those who urge the abolition of the capital punishment. And it is recognization of the compassion’s part that leads the upholders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionist of the sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim. This is nonsense, but with it some organs of the popular Press played upon the emotions of the readers so successfully that many candidates for parliament were afraid to support the abolition of capital punishment for fear of losing votes, and the result is the muddle-headed Homicide Act of 1957 which made murder with robbery a capital crime，and allowed the poisoner to escape gallows. The illogical qualification shows how flimsy is the argument that capital punishment is a deterrent to murder. The poisoner always works on a calculated plan of action therefor is able to consider whether or not his taking another’s life is worth the risk of his own, but a violent thief is usually at the mercy of an instant emotion. The only arguable plea for the capital punishment is the right of society to retribution in this world with a prospect of life in another. But Since what used to seem to the great majority of civilized humanity the assurance of another life beyond the grave has come to seem to more and more people less certain, a feeling for the value of life has become deeper and more widespread. This seems a paradoxical claim to make at a time when mankind is so much preoccupied with weapons of destruction. Nevertheless, this is a claim that can be sustained, if compassion animates those who urge the abolition of death penalty it is not the sentimental compassion for the mental agony inflicted upon the condemned man but a dread of destroying the miracle of life.
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