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-pers the whole number is not greater now and in
that time whatever it be (and it will not be easily
fixed upon) that is assumed for the standard of comparison, + + meliority
how is there an increase of vice, if the greater
proportion be occupied by the latter class?
I say in the sense most favourable to the idea
for if the whole number of such offences is in truth
no greater, the quantity of vice upon the whole
if the proportion of the latter class be augmented,
must in truth be less. + is in truth diminished If ever by view be meanly
(the only sense in which it has a meaning) a habit habits]
pernicious causing unhappiness to Society. shews itself in a shape less mischievous
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Suborning Evidence x Cutting out Tongues.
I would not say that there was an increase of vice
because witnesses were sometimes silenced by a
bribe instead of the old approved recipe of cutting
out his tongue.
Care of Trade
I would not say that there was an encrease of
vice because the Legislation being now as anxious
for the encrease of trade max necessity of imports (that is for the encrease of
of the causes of enjoyment & instruments of defence)
as formerly once it was indifferent, and as intelligent
of the means of it as for once it was profoundly
ignorant
COMPOSITION. Whole together. Voluminousness. Increase of Vice | 2[ ] how far cause of.
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