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Since in the present undigested and unprincipled
state of the penal lawslaw these relaxation enervating poisons
have their use, in what respect have they? what
are the laws penal laws against which in respect of those which are as
poisons have the effect of ones medicines?
I will give a specimen of these two, though the
occasion will afford none but a very incomplete
one.
1. The laws of against offenses even of the highest and
most real malignity, in as far as they are punished made
punishable with death.
2 All laws which put the attempt to commit a crime pf real malignity the attempt though deserted
from and perhaps repented of, upon the same footing
with the actual perpetration.
3. Laws which put Homicide by consent such as
Duelling and or homicide with intention of
hurting and not of killing, or intentional homicide or
quarrel on the same footing with premeditated
4. The law penal laws against the irregularities of
the criminal appear to be without unaccompanied with
fraud breach of contract, fraud or force: laws made supported
perhaps by the false or frivolous, pretence of a detriment
to population, but in reality under
the influence of the principle of asceticism, and
for the gratification of the malignant passion of antipathy.
5. All laws against the imaginary sin of usury.
6. All laws turning converting the country into a prison, &
the skill and ingenuity of the poor wardsman
with confinement in to support of the monopoly
of the merchant and master manufacturer,
against malignant hostility against foreign virtues
under the mask of
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