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These motives can never of themselves give birth to the intention
of committing any of those crimes; they can only by chance
raise up auxiliaries to the execution when the intention
has already been produced by motives of another kind.

These therefore are not those with which the Legislator has
to do when he makes Laws against those crimes.

Beating does not become criminal from it's being an invasion
of that property which a man has in his own limbs
but by it's being a creation of pain: for the invasion of a
mans property in extrinsic subjects, becomes a crime only
in virtue of it's creating pain.

Lust may also by accident as well as avarice be the indirect motive of to all [sorts
of] Crimes whatsoever (except those called unnatural) which
have any other for their direct motive: as a person may be
precipitating into any of them by the influence of or for
another whom he has a passion of that sort so might even —

Friendship annexed with the other passion — But these
are seen not to be the immediate motives to those crimes, inasmuch
as those crimes demand some others for their production
in the breast of the first conceiver, nor contribute in any degree
to characterize the distinction of those crimes from each other, it
is unnecessary to prefix these motives to the moral classes.

Thus it certainly is not either Love or Friendship that can
originally raise in the Heart of a person the desire to beat another:
but when Resentment Hatred has raised that desire in a
man, Love may of the opposite passion raise him up in a substitute
or an assistant for the gractification of the opposite passion

Objection answer'd.
It is a common saying that we cannot know men's motives, that
motives lie without the reach of our discovery: a possession which
is thus so far true in respect of many Crimes that of 2 or 3 motives
one cannot tell to which of them exclusively they are owing, but
this does not hinder but that we may tell disjunctively, that
it is some one or other of the groupe, or all of them together.

Besides that this objection holds only to long courses of action
which if bad are breaches only of morality, & the effects of which
are not so conspicuous, nor the connection of any particular step
of that course, with the obnoxious event so close & necessary or so fixed, as
to warrant it's interdiction.

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