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1821 Septr 21 Decr 22
Codification Proposal
to a B reference Aug, none.
No then, thence
their Code, the interests that in my view, I
now speak of either much service no other
with the of all surprize it is the narrowest
interest that I will not say whole, but I can
not but say the first and principal point of their
Taken together the several forms of sinister interest,
interest-begotten prejudice and authority-begotten prejudice,
constitute the seductive force – the tendency of which is to
draw aside the course of the workmen and thence of the
operation, and of the work from the line of appropriate aptitude. Any force
the tendency of which is to keep the course of the workmen
and thence of the work steady on the right path in that
same line of aptitude be operates as in the character
of a guardian power or tutelary force – Such a force
is the force of the popular or moral sanction; considered in as
applying its application to this subject.
The seductive force is the temptation the inducement
to take the wrong path: the tutelary force, the sanction acting
in opposition to that body of temptation: the inducement to take
the right path: to pursue, to act on the line of appropriate
aptitude.
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