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[Limits] of [Trancendental Legislation]
more highly of any every object in proportion as it is
the less familiar, and therefore more obvious.
as it lies wider of further from the
the touch of ordinary contemplation observ
Bringing in Cherishing the religious
sanctions is like setting a
town on fire [in order]
to save it from the enemy
Management of it lies
in other hands viz: the
clergy.
The common view
of most and in a
certain sense of all
laws
The general common view object of business of the greater
part of the articles matter in a system of laws and
to prevent mischief in a certain sense of the
the whole system is to prevent mischief in
as far as human agency is [consider'd as concerned in it
being capable of being concerned in it's
production: or to speak more shortly] the general common
view of the system of all laws is to prevent mischief
in as far as human agency is concerned in it.
Now for preventing mischief the most ordinary
most obvious and most universal recipe method is to
endeavour to punish prevent the acts that have
a tendency to [produce or] promote it, by means
of punishment drawn from the political sanction,
and applied immediately to those very acts themselves.
This then may be conceived to form the business of
direct or ordinary legislation: other what other expedients
the nature of things may offer for the promoting
of the same end may be referred to the
head of indirect or transcendent legislation.
Identifier: | JB/087/042/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
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