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1820 Decr 4
upon a small scale or dig out up a large
see in up their usual long last only to one so side
After this it is a sort of anticlimax in argument to
observe add that number and amount in and pecuniary circumstances the case of being the
same, the suffering enjoyment produced benefit produced received by a coercive arrangement
is never to great as the suffering produced by the
correspondent bet burthen imposed – that of those the number for whom
are be in these cases the benefit is intended it is but by a
small part that any benefit of the intended is received – that in the
case of that small part the benefit is not permanent
since the monopoly not being granted to individuals
but only to classes not to which individuals without that
are at liberty to aggregate themselves, the competition
produced by the influx sooner or later dismembers the
benefit to all: and that the labour and expence of
attendant in the watching task over the executive of laws
which almost all but the very few are endeavouring to
evade is so much lost to national wealth, which
falshood and insecurity produced by the combat is
so much lost of national morality, and the form employed
by the agents of government against the people
in their character of actual or intended evaders of the
laws is so much lost to constitutional liberty and
security, and the perseverance in measures so plainly
repugnant to liberty reason general utility and constitutional
law is so much lost of national wisdom
and the reputation of it.
☞ Go on to trust the adopter of such principle is taken up
with the descended refuse of the old system descended use by
who was so wedded to all mischievous prejudices. Thus the
the best of the whole nation.
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rid yourselves of ultramaria |
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rid yourselves |
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