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8 C Of Prodigality in Trustees.

force than before, without any accession of strength
to the opposing influence of the social motives.
3dly. That the case in question must be allowed to
be an extra-ordinary one: whereas if the methods
which are respectively but suited to the two cases
are incompatible it is of more importance to the
state to be well provided against ordinary and constant situations
occasions of things which are happening every day, than
against extraordinary occasions which may never
happen. 4th and lastly, that if upon by any extraordinary
accident such a conjecture should happen
in which it might seem that no one none but a prodigal could do the
business of the state, so well as a prodigal, it
would be running a less risk to trust to the sovereign
for its dispensing with the standing law
in favour of that prodigal, than to trust to all
prodigals for the sake of the chance that some
time or other in a case some prodigal or other
in a case when the sovereign would not let
him, may be able and willing to render such a
service to the state as no man else could render.

Hitherto the only light in which the
proposed law has been consider'd has been that of
a measure of physical prevention. Now it is in this
light only that the objection just examined has any application

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	080	Info in main headings field	of prodigality in trustees
Image	004	Titles	notes
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23697
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