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Indirect Legislation § 5
sanction, to punish the effusions of benevolence
as far as it is safe to punish them; and to reward
them in as far as it can be afforded the state can afford to reward
them belongs to the province comes within the task of direct legislation:
I speak with regard to the human species; the
principal and too generally the only object of
the legislator's care. To retard restraining man
from tormenting the inferior part of the animal
creation, is an act a measure of indirect legislation that
might be adopted in the same view: a direct
law against cruelty of to animals is a would be an indirect
law against cruelty towards man. (a)
See B. 1. tit.
[Cruelty to animals]
Bias is more
by insinuation
NOTE
Service done in this
way by Hogarth.
(a) [It was] thus [that] Hogarth, when preaching with his inimitable
pencil against the cruelty of man to man, dedicated
his first lesson to the service of the brute creation.
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