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Why INTENTION is regarded. in question could not
have occurred.

The notions of the bulk of men however [must at intervals] militate strongly against this Idea
accustomed as they are in by virtue of [their] natural properties to look upon veng[eance]
not prevention, as the end of punishment: they do not consider that it is only in
virtue of the general tendency of right intentions to manifest themselves in useful acts,
that if we bestow any regard upon them: and that right intentions were a
constantly productive of wrong acts, as wrong intentions are at present, we should
regard them upon exactly the same footing then as we do now the latter now.

In cases the moral incidents of private life <add>ordinary intercourse of private morality</add> it is different: and since these are more frequent to
private men's observation; it is from this source [that] flows the idea which by being too universally bestowed becomes erroneous hence arises the mistake — If a friend does a thing with
a view to forward, which happens by accident to cross any enterprise of : I cont[inue]
never the less to esteem him my friend and treat him as such: because the disposition
or intention tho' frustrated in that instance remains ready still to manifest itself on future occasion[s] in attempt efforts<add> endeavours which
may be more successful: this is the general reasoning which being called forth incidents incessantly
occurring must very early in the of Society have given birth to the general
which like all other general rules is often carried further than the
stakes which first give rise to it.

Now in a case of this sort I have a variety of [diagnostics] by which to judge of my friends inten
which from are<add>all together too numerous and simply too vague to be their nature can never been offered to a court of Justice. His
words his looks upon the occasion the whole history of his life and conversation with other
the whole tenor of his behaviour to myself the connection of interests to pleasures
or sentiments that consist between us.

Felonious intent.

There are Before we quit this head [part of our] subject, it will be proper to take notice of some
cases [in criminal Jurisprudence] the practical doctrine concerning which may seem to afford
an exception to what has been above advanced — the consideration of them while
it tends to obviate that exception, will illustrate any obscurity that may yet remain suspended hang over
the subject.

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