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2. C Of Idleness.

is the pain of sympathy. This then is aleady an evil.
If it be without their consent, it assumes necessarily the
shape of some one or other of the offences against the property
of individuals; it changes its nature and becomes
an offence against individuals.

Idleness then, when the result of choice and accompanied
by indigence, is obviously a proper object
of coercion. But is it the result of choice? This
is a fact which it is highly necessary should be ascertained
before the coercion is applied. All other
species of delinquency have this in common that the
avoiding them depends altogether depends upon the deliquent.
This is not the case with idleness: since for a man to
have employment, two parties must concur: himself
to accept it, and somebody else to give it him. It is
plain therefore that the Legislator before he can, with
any degree of Justice, punish idleness, or before he can
even be entitled to lament it as a misforturne, ought so to
order matters that whosoever stands in need of employment
may be sure to meet with it. This can only be

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	066	Info in main headings field	of idleness
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] pro patria [with motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23683
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