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B.1. CRIMES in general Ch. 1 1 Of the several tasks performable &c.
The word Offences carries a reference to some Law
whereby the act so denominated is supposed to
be forbidden under a penalty. It is plain therefore that every act whatever may be an offence.
The word Crime where it means refers to any thing more than the writer's own feelings or opinion carries a reference to the
general disapprobation or of the speaker writing of the Society By the Society in this case is most commonly meant that Political State i:e: portion of Society, being usually that of which he is a member, which the writer keeps principally in view during his discourse, or it may mean Mankind at large: it i:e: the majority of Political States which of these two meanings it be, must is generally determinable only by the context: it is very often the case, that the distinction has not occurred to the writer himself: the Idea of his own particular Society, swallowing up, as it is apt, that of every other. supposed
to be bestowd on the act in question, which disapprobation is further supposed to exist in an
intense degree
In general it's strictest & most usual ordinary acceptation it supposes
the act of which it is predicated to be also
an Offence — & thus it is we say, that Murder
is a crime — In a Rhetorical & abusive improper
an acceptation this suppostion is sometimes omitted.
& thus it it we say, that Ingratitude is a
crime: not meaning thereby that by Law for an
act of that sort there is any penalty by Laws
In general, the act to which this latter denomination
is attributed, is supposed to be wrong,
& very wrong; & this whatever be the standard or criterion
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of wrongness, a question in which of itself it this denomination
leaves untouched. Thus he who says, that
The word law Ingratitude is i:e: an act of Ingratitude is a crime, means in general
that it is an object of strong vehement disapprobation amongst mankind, without
meaning to determine whether that the disapprobation be
founded on the notion of that habit's being prejudicial
to general happiness, or adverse to
the good pleasure of the deity, or unpleasant offensive
to the Moral Sense, or in short being to be accounted
for by any other of those forms of speech,
supposing that instead of announcing the effect,
in different words, they did really as they profess to
do, assigned a different cause.
The word Sin carries a reference The word Sin carries a reference to the Deity, to whom he who uses it supposed the act to which it is applied to be unpleasing, without deciding or enquiring upon what account to the irrespective
Will (as it is called by some) of the Supreme
Being Deity, whereby a Being in the highest degree
rational that is rational in the common sense in which the word is used for in a different one it is not rational is supposed to controul & without effect man in the
practise & pursuit of happiness & without effect ineffectually
as is proved by the instance to which it is applied, & without a reason
INTRODUCTION. Crimes. Offences. Sins &c.
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