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Indirect Legislation

Moral

represented as present or as past: History, biography,
novels and dramatic compositions are
also all so many [instruments] by the circulation
of which the force of the moral sanction may
be encreased as well as the [direction of it may
be biases] as the application of it may be biased and
regulated. In these The force power strength and the direction
of the power of the moral sanction are articles indeed which
are separable rather in idea than in fact:
what influences the one influencing the other. can scarce do otherwise than exercise some sort of influence

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Concern which the government may have on the
part of the culture
of the moral
sanction.

These articles implements of moral instruction will most are in most
of them be countries in Europe produced and
circulated in sufficient abundance by individuals
without any care on the part of the legistur government:
but supposing the in as far as the
stock assortment of these articles of this sort may happen to be deficient,
it is by no means beneath the care notice of
of authority the government to take measures for supplying the
deficiency.
This observation applies
more particularly to
the case of a new-
formed nation.

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The business burthen of these
compositions will
turn all along upon the following
points:
Those anecdotes in which virtue
is represented in amiable, vice in odious, colours:
larger histories, biographies the former rewarded; the
latter punished.

Direction which it should be the tendency
of such compositions
to

These

Identifier: | JB/087/018/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-6
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	018	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27543
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