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[Limits] of [Transcendental Legislation]

Transcendental
Legislation

In several departments of science, there
are branches which having been cultivated at a
later period than the rest, having required been the result of a longer
series of observations, a deeper train of reflections
and a more strenuous exertion and a more arduous flight of inventive genius,
a more comprehensive reach
these have been dignified by the name epithet of
transcendental . Let mathematics and chemistry
serve for examples. The same distinction might
perhaps not inappositely be applied to the art of legislation.
There is a species of certain such or
sort of such an act which
has a manifest tendency
to produce such
and such a mischief
how is it to be prevented? —
The answer
that every body
is ready, and every
body however undiscerning
is able to give
is couched in these
two words, forbid it,
punish it.
One method of proceeding in the view business
of combating offences being pitched fixed upon as the
most obvious, every other method beside and therefore beyond this might be included
under distinguished from it by the appellation of transcendental.
Two such branches seem in fact to be sufficiently not
ill distinguished in the ideas of the multitude conceptions of those who
of political speculators turn their thoughts to legislation : the one perfectly in its design of its which progress
in all its operations
obvious to observation
and reduced long ago
to some sort of system: the the other the other shewing itself only here and there in detached
fragments the whole assemblage no one came ever hitherto to have thought of comparing
under any regular extensive & systematic view, much less under any exhaustive method: the one
tolerated borne with
as necessary, but not looked upon with any degree
of complacency: the other the object of
the partial preference and fond attachment
of the bulk of speculators, always disposed to think the
more

Identifier: | JB/087/042/001 "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	042	Info in main headings field	of transcendental legislation
Image	001	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	27567
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