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SECT. Parts of a Law. (34
Sanctional.

committed murder, it is as true of any one conceivableimaginable part of
his life that he observed the Law against murder as of another. And the conceivableimaginable parts
in a man's life are infinite: for the imaginable parts
of any time are infinite. The occasions of giving
reward to any one man for any one crime would
therefore be infinite.

A third reason is, that the Law can at the same
costof produceing more pain in a man by the methods it has of
producing pain; than pleasure, by the methods
it has of producing pleasure. The only way
it has of producing pleasure is by furnishing men
with the instruments of it. This it does by furnishing
them with money, by which the greatest part
of those instruments may be purchased. But
let any quantity of

settle the par between pain and pleasure any
how, let any degree of pain be supposed equivalent
to any degree if pleasure, a "bare bodkin" to use the expression of the poet
can produce more pain, than mountains of
gold can produce pleasure.

A fourth and the last reason I shall give is,
that it can be surer of producing pain by
the methods it has of producing pain; than pleasure,
by the methods it has of producing pleasure.
All it can do, as has been observed already,

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