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The sum total of the mischief of the influence of want of notriety
non notriety upon the efficacy of the whole System collection not being brought
into view action upon any one of these occasions, but only some small
part of it, it is only that small part that comes to be weighed
against the whole of the inconvenience apprehended from the
abrogation of any parcel of the Collection System that happens to be assumed a great assembly
pitched upon for the purpose.
It is thus that men remote from the secret springs of [political]
action are may be enabled to account in the most honourable respectful
and probably the truest manner for the conduct [proceeding]
otherwise scarce applicable of the higher assembly of the Legislature
in rejecting the advances we have so lately seen made
for theat purpose by the lower.
Estimating more highly the utility of one of the Laws proposed
for abrogation, (for example that for rendering the attempt
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to murder a privy Councillor more penal than a common
person, than the other House) it might think be of opinion in the 1st place
that the benefit of that one Law either of itself or at least
added to that of some other Law or Laws of those comprized
in the proposal, is, after deducting all the inconvenience
resulting from them in point of their matter as well as their
form, superior to the benefit resulting to the whole System
merely from the disembarassing of it from so much superfluous
matter as taken together they contain, that being probably
the whole benefit brought into view upon the occasion.
And [in this manner therefore] thus they might be determined
not to part with that.
Then with respect to the remaining ones, it might think in
the next place that the above mentioned benefit of extirpating
them might still yield even to another inconvenience of a different
nature: viz
Consolidn Partial attempts ineffectual. Why BR Unsystematicalness cause of Particular views Sans common Principles
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A loss of esteem to the governing body of by the supposed unpopular
measure of setting the stamp of special approbation
upon a Law which however salutary to the whole community
in reality, they may observe to carry particulality to a few and
to bear the print of aristocracy upon the face of it.
And thus, however well satisfied of the utility of abrogating
many of those proposed taken separately they might be
Determined upon the whole to part with none.
The supposed inconvenience, however slight, attributed to the
matter of them, being set successively in the balance against
that small part only of advantage which can accrue to the
whole system in point of form by the disembarrassing it of that
proportion which they occupy of it's contents.
One regardless of his purse thinks of nothing but revenge -
another thinks there can be no harm [where] if it can be done, in
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his being made whole again. The one accordingly puts on
a clause of compensation in his act, another leaves it out
in his - while compensation all the while was in both cases
expedient or in neither -
Thus it is that the Laws are rather this man's act & that
man's act that the acts of the Legislature -
The reason is that separate Laws being made for separate
subjects of a very limitted description, each one taken
separately appears a matter so trifling, in comparison of
the many other matters, which take faster hold of men's affections in that station
as not to engage the attention of the greater number;
who find it much easier to assent at once to what
is demanded, than to bewilder themselves in a tedious &
multifarious comparison discussion - a discussion not to be terminated but by principals
which have not as yet entered into their mind.
But indolent must he be indeed, whose attention would not be at
the sound of a regular and thorough examination.
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