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Sect. Parts of Law. (17
things sure which the purpose of the example re—
quired him to tell us, and the very thing,
which apparently he will never tell us.
If for a moment, to instead of the unin—
telligeble words ☞ right and wrong, just and un—
just, he could prevail upon himself to part the
words beneficial and
mischievous and beneficial which are intelli—
gible, and bear a have a meaning nearest to what
the for mentioned set of words appear to permit
to, what he says of their would apparently to be false.
Suppose this done. Then what we learn from him
is, that things (I:e: actions) in themselves indifferent become
mischievous to or beneficial according as the mu—
nicipal legislation as proper. if this be the
case with any sort of actions, he is a sad wretch
this farce municipal legislation if he does not
make all of them (others In of them) beneficial, if
if he leaves any one of them mischievous
By a beneficial, and by a mischievous sort of an action, I know perfect—
ly well what I mean; and I am inclined to
think that others do so too. By a beneficial sort of an action I mean a sort of
[an] action that is more apt to produce pleasure
than it is pain: by a mischievous, more apt
to produce pain than it is pleasure.
☞ (Unintelligible as he
uses them)
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