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have been expected, so have been
in the habit of taking existing
practice as observable in the books.
Such men are governed by two
mutually connected maxims.
One is that whatever is not masked, for
punishment in their those barks can
not any where as yet have happened:
the other is that what has
not as yet happened can never
happen in future. Consequently
any any such notion as that of
preventing delinquncy by apposite
punishment & provided
in the Code: in which process is included
that the previous insertion of
definitions, of expository matter,
and rationale in conformity to the
general plan, is superfluous, theoretical
visionary &: mischief be it
what it may must have made
its way into Society, before any endeavour
should be used to exclude
it. Nor yet is any single instance or even
small number of its instances of its
actually
⊞ ⊞ actually happening sufficient to warrant for any such purpose as that of the endeavour to exclue it the notion of its being possible.
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