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1822 March 3d 18
Rid Yourselves

Lett. 1. Plan

will be contributory to that same all-comprehensive
and only justifiable end. But, it is by the power of the
popular or moral sanction, as applied by the tribunal
of public opinion, that these inducements, whatever
they may amount to, have to be applied. In the
case of this as of every other sanction, either it is of the
anticipation, either of eventual evil having the effect of
punishment, or of eventual good having the effect of reward,
or of both that these inducements will consist.(a.)

Note (a.)

(a.) In so far as evil having the effect of punishment is
the inducements responsibility, i.e. exposure to eventual
punishment, is a word which, in this case is in possession
of being employed: so far as depends it is by his
sense of responsibility, that is by his perception of this
exposure, that, be the work what it may, the workman
is, in this case, induced to endeavour to make good work:
to render his work in this or that way contributory, to
abstain from rendering it in this or that way detrimental,
to the maximum of happiness.

In so far as good having the effect of reward
is the inducement, no single word answering to the word
responsibility as used in the other case, has been found:
probability of receiving eventual good, having the effect
of reward is a phrase by which the conception may be
conveyed. At every turn, he whose endeavour it is to
avoid conveying any idea that shall fail in clearness,
correctness or comprehensiveness, finds his hand arrested
by the imperfection and intractability of language.

In general acceptation, responsibility has reference
as well to legal tribunals as to the tribunal of
public opinion: as well to the power of the legal sanction
as to the power of the popular and or moral sanctions
and, as the zone of the legal sanction is in general so
much more irresistible than that of the moral, it is
this stronger species of inducement that in general is more
conspicuously if not exclusively, brought to view by it.
But, in the present instance, responsibility as towards
the legal tribunals with their legal sanctions, has no
application. Where on the part of a public functionary,
the act in question is no other than that of giving introduction and support,
as

Identifier: | JB/008/125/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1	1822-03-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	008	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	125a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 125.	Info in main headings field	rid yourselves
Image	001	Titles	note (a)
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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