It is of the greatest importance to keep this distinction in mind, for an imposed or artificial conscience almost certainly forecloses the natural or inspired conscience,-a truth largely illustrated by the history both of families and of nations, from which we learn that periods of corruption and wild license invariably follow periods of extreme restraint and asceticism.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody
For to them, no other motive remains, nor indeed to any one else, save that of the universal good, which does not permit the building up of supposed self-good, and therefore forecloses all possibility of an individual family.
"History of American Socialisms"
John Humphrey Noyes
He fails to pay the money borrowed, and B forecloses his mortgage, and sells the farm.
"Monopolies and the People"
D. C. Cloud