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--Mental reservation is an act of the mind bywhich a speaker restricts or limits his words to a meaning which theydo not naturally or The same applies to a non-necessaryheir who has been left nothing in a will, since he had no strict right. But if thecommon safety depended on the sacrifice of one man's life, charity andpatriotism would require this man to make the sacrifice spontaneo formal object of prudence, 1629 a; material object, 1629 a;prudence needs certitude, 1630; relation of prudence to the other moralvirtues, 1631 a; prudence rules the infer

evil spirits or with falsereligious rites (for a serious injury is done to the honor due to God),or when a vai Seeparagraph 1. Thus, if a criminal were aboutto blow up a building and destroy many lives, it would be permissibleor even obligatory to put powerful intoxicants into his drink so as tomake him helpless. Those who lynch the perpetrators of heinous crimes are often in goodfaith, especially if the processes