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The law must be violated or orphans would be starved. Poverty, rapine, and conf dissipation would be the result of every death.
of the state in Turkey? – Evidently not. Universal
poverty, universal rapine and confusion would take
place upon every death. People would not
bind up children to be starved One cannot for two moments
together suppose the existence of a law Laws would be deceiving
in other words all young & orphans to be starved. The expiration of Life-hold estates
produce no such inconvenience: because fathers knowing
what is to happen make provision accordingly,
and out of that revenue income which they can not leave
to their children, save another which they can
leave to them. ⊞ ⊞ Previous to the accumulation of property in masses considerable enough to afford income the The expectation of children stood originally
in every instance upon this precarious footing.
It stands upon no better now nor ever can
in the instance of the children of those those families whose only
source of revenue income is their labour: that is of by the
for the greater part great bulk of the community.
To preserve therefore to children the succession of
their parents is a matter of absolute necessity. It is
not matter of equal necessity to preserve to brothers
the succession of brothers: still less to nephews the succession
of Uncles – Why so? because the brother has
for his primary and only regular dependence the succession of his father the
common parent. The dependence of the Nephew in like
manner is not has not been upon his Uncle, who perhaps may has children of his own, but upon his father.
So
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