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Indirect Legislation § 3
Moral
public spirit, assiduity, firmness, affability in the stateman,
incorruptibility, impartiality, assiduity, patience,
firmness and humanity in the judge. To these With
these examples of virtue examples of vice might
also be intermixed, so that care were taken that
either the vitious conduct either appears of itself sufficiently
odious, or be seen to have with its brought misery,
deserts the misery I mean that of the wrongdoer
in it's train.
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Cases where the
mischievousness
of the practice reprobated stands in
need of demonstration
In some cases the mischief vousness of the is the immediate
consequence of the conduct which it is meant to discontinence
be discountenanced: flashes out upon the first glance in
others the contingent and remote: in the former
cases it flashes out upon the first glance:
in the latter it has is cover'd up from the eyes
lies on the surface of the object and is caught
by the first glance [of the most superficial observer]
: in the latter being coverd up and shrouded
by that multitude of intervening links in the chain
of causes and effects, it requires the hand of a
master to fish it out and lay it open to the
eyes of the undis unreflecting multitude. In
the
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