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Indirect Legislation

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The greater its
force, the worse
commonly its
direction

The second and only remaining point to be
attended to in the culture of the religious sanction
is the augmentation of its force. [Upon the suppositi Upon the supposition that If the sovereignty
were placed is vested in such hands that the apparent
intent of the sovereign co-incides with the intent
of the people] If the sovereign government
is were so order'd that the sole measure of the conduct
of the sovereign is the principle of utility, if
in this case the direction of the force of the religious
sanction is were absolutely at the his disposal, if
if the only use that is were made of it service it is were put to is were to correct
the errors wanderings of the moral sanction, and to supply
that deficiency failure in point of strength which both
that and the political both are subject to for
want of information, the power of it never could
be too great. Unhappily there have not as yet been are not yet many
countries in which all [the above these] suppositions
quadrate with the truth. To judge from the present what is even
now the state of some and the former state of all what
even now has bee at some time or other has even been
the state of all, religion seems to have been in a
still greater degree the enemy than the instrument
of

Identifier: | JB/087/025/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	12-13
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	025	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22 / f23 / f24
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	27550
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