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reason, though a weaker one, for extending abstaining to enrich the public
fund even to the prejudice of ascendants, relations in
the ascending line.

At what precise point the line is shall be drawn
principle and reasoning can scarce afford grounds
for determining. – I have drawn it at a venture.

It may now be seen why there may be less appearance
of hardship, and even less hardship in
assuming reserving for the benefit of the public the whole
than were a small share. Reserve the whole, nothing
appears to be taken from any body: for nothing
was ever given. The Nephew remote relations of people in
general stand upon the same footing as the nephews
of a beneficed unmarried Clergy. Lay a tax upon
collateral successions, you begin by establishing collateral
successions: what you give up is thus looked the much that you leave is not placed
to your account or given by you upon as no gain, and the little your reserve is
all looked upon as loss so much which you take. taken.

The sensation of loss produced by a tax thus imposed
is certainly not so severe as that imposed
by a tax to equal amount upon property already
in possession. – Why? In the first place because the loss in question
does not come but in company with a gain.
In the next place Upon the lapse of the succession a kind of the expectation
produced is no more than a kind of a vague confused

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	15-16
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	042	Info in main headings field	appropriation supply
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l munn
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 680, vol. 4	ID Number	3343
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