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The operation prevalence of the self-regarding over the social interest as
a cause of immorality, it belongs in a great measure to the ruling powers to
remove. Legislation Wise legislation would be directed to their identification
& to the production of an accordance between the popular & the
political sanction. This accordance is strengthened by every law that is good –
weakened by every law that is evil. A law legal penalty, for example, which make it attached to an act by in
for which a man's interest is associated with the public popular interest as
where prohibition is attached to the circulation of that which is an instrument of
enjoyment or an object of virtuous desire, – is not only produces immorality, – not only offers a premium
on immorality, – but destroys the power of the political sanction by
disassociating it from the popular interest. This Topics like this however belong rather
to public than to private deontology, – & it is only to the latter
that this Volume has reference.

It may however be not amiss to advert
to the fact that from out of the clashing of the popular interests with the sinister
penalties of interests which are too often protected by legislation, – misery & immorality frequently grow to
a frightfully baneful extent. The fiscal regulations of many
countries – monopolies established by Law – frequently present
cases in which the violator of the letter of the statute can
scarcely be considered other than the benefactor of the public.
Cases occur in which the political sanction popular sanction is outraged by the political
popular sanction, – & the popular sanction in consequence
takes acts under its protection which the are held up by
the political sanction as offences & crimes fit to be visited
by penalties more or less severe. The triumph over despotism
where the many have been engaged against the one or
the few is the triumph of the popular over the political
sanction. Every step in the way of social improvement
which is made agai by the subject against the government
is a similar victory. Good government is, in a word, the
harmony established between Legislation & enlightened opinion.
But the subject is too vast for discussion here.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	220	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	5436
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