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Indirect Legislation

Physical §

Lycurgus's contrivance
against
drunkenness

Lycurgus, if Xenophon is to be believed, made
his Sp
built the common refectories of his Spartans
at a distance from their homes, in order to keep
them sober. For says said he to himself, having so far
to come of a dark-night, they will be afraid to take care not to have
they get drunk, lest they should tumble down and for fear of tumbling down and breaking
break their shins. Thus sobriety would depend
upon the
This is stated deliverd with gravity
by the Athenian philosopher [as one of the among the other] deep-
laid contrivances of the Spartan legislator sage . Upon
this principle, the act which made passed not many
years ago for the paving and lighting the streets
of Oxford was an injudicious impolitic law, [prejudicial
to the sobriety morals of the students]. The true policy would
have been to have thrown dug pitfalls here and
there in the streets foot paths its streets, and whenever as often as an any old house came
was to be pulled down, to have left thrown the materials into
the streets foot path.



Identifier: | JB/087/041/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

087

Main Headings

indirect legislation

Folio number

041

Info in main headings field

indirect legislation

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

27566

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