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SECT: Parts of a Law.
Sanctional
be dissatisfied. Now that any one should from the having observed
thus much, that more use is made of punishments are made more use of
than rewards should be apt ever to take up a dissatisfaction, is
what I hardly should conceive.
However since the argument question is started, we may e'en as well
pursue it follow it to an answer. To express the above reasons
so far as they have any truth in them, together
with another or two that may be added, to express do this
then I say without parade, and with something like
precision I would say thus.
The first may be may be given in . When In the first place. The receivers would be the same persons
all are receivers who are to be payers givers? as the payers. There are Many points
of conduct that are the expected to be observed by all men;
and they that actually are observed by all men – with
so few it exceptions as not to deserve notice.⊞ ⊞ All men therefore having pay'd obey'd [yielded obedience], all would be to receive the reward for it. This
would apply against rewards were there were so were the sum necessary
little necessary and and the to be given, ever so little, and the occasions of giving it, times for paying
as of paying ever so few. It depends not as one would imagine from our Author upon the quantity of the
stock. Were rewards to be given Right hand must pay left: and a man
must first take his money out of his pocket, to
put it in again.
The second In the second place, the occasions of paying would be
infinite. Of the a points of conduct (for I will must
not say actions for an obvious reason) the which
the Law requires of a man, much the larger share
consists in acts, if they may be so denominated, of acts of forbearance
are infinite. If a man dies without ever having
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