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If there were no other ill effects attendant on Superstition or the misdirected whou we sanction This
alone would showprove it to be [one of] the bitterest rods mankind
ever were scourged themselves with that by bestowing the quality denominations of offenses on
thingsacts indifferent to the happiness of society. it creates new & artificial crimes,
it adds introduces among men new occasions of division and disgust.
thus adding to the but too numerous ones. Which must ever subsist.] It
weakens the horror due to real crimes by spending it upon nominal
ones. It confounds men's ideas of right and wrong; they discover
the emptiness of those denominations as applied to many subjects
conclude it alike and become to answer them alike indifferently as applied to all.

If it had not been for a slight tincture at least of Superstition
yet remaining, there never could have appeared a work with the
title of "Private Vices Public Benefits."

Identifier: | JB/015/203/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	203	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5419
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