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25 Novr 1811
Evidence
Physical constantly the source of correctness as well as incorrectness
Rational only of correctness unless by casual and comparatively more
misapplication.
Rational, human in : human, spontaneous or by from coercive influence
Punishment as above (See Sanctions) is for the legal sanction: theories from the popular
To the legal, or (to take it in its full extent) the political
from the political or legal sanction they, may be referred in so far as they are
considered as about or liable to result from the exercise of
the power of government, whether in the truck of the legislative,
and the judicial, or in that of the administrative department.
– from To the religious or supernatural, they may be referred, in so
far as they are considered as about or liable to result
from the exercise of the almighty power power of government, in by the hand
almighty hand of a supernatural and invisible being, in the present
world life orneither as in a life to come.
§. 4. I. The Physical sanction – its operation as a source of correctness
and of incorrectness.
In general, it costs less labour to report a matter
of fact, with its circumstances, as presented by the memory
than, at a moments warning, to invent, in a train of circumstances of a great length
than to moral circumstances, which, without being true,
a given length, circumstances, which, without being true
shall,all along to the very end, be taken for such. So far as this
observation is part agrees with the nature of the case, may the physical sanction be said to operate,
in restraint of deceptitous incorrectness and incompleatness.
At the same time, if in time, if it be in strict form and high degree, that correctness and compleatness
be are required, from and high degree, neither
is the labour of the memory altogether free from uneasiness:
a labour, which is the greater, the more distant in point of time the matters of
fact are in point of time, were were, and, at the time of perception the less impressive,
the less impressive the , especially if of the first impression the
especially if recollection has not, in the meantime, been
refreshed by intervening interests: the impression: and
has thus here again we see the physical sanction speaking: operating,
but now in the character of a cause not of a cause – not of correctness and compleatness but of incorrectness and incompleatness.
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