JB/087/007/002

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Indirect Legislation §. 2.

ledge and power: conceive a man to have possess
all these three endowments with relation to any
act, and the acts follows necessarily and of course.
Let such als they can not be supposed to take have place
but it must be supposed to take place also:
for such is the force of these expressions: will
or effectual inclination to perform cause the act
to be pre take place, knowledge of the means
or expedients requisite for that purpose, and power to set carry
those means into execution those expedients to work  : suppose any of
these to be wanting to him, and the act or event in
question in as far as his agency is necessary
can not take place. In this Within these bounds
are must the whole system of preventive expedients
be comprehended: comprised: were an angel to descend from heaven
for the purpose, one or other more of these points he
must accomplish to prevent effect it: he would need less he could not
do: no less: and as he could not, so neither need he
do any more.

NOTE (a) Knowledge, Inclination, knowledge and power, being
all each of them so many fictitious entities whose
relations to one another are not intuitively appa-
-rent

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	007	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	r williams
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27532
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