JB/087/058/001

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Indirect Legislation

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[I hope it will not be said] , [and yet it is
It may be said, as a reason for debarring
like what on other occasions I have heard people from amusements
said ] that on sundays the people they ought to be
meditating on busying themshelves about holy things: with which meditation sort of
business amusement is at least as incompatible
as labour. They ought to be ? let it
be allow'd
But will they? That and that only
is the proper question. Is what ought to be
done & what [will
be done] what is
likely to be done
precisely the same
thing?
Is there no difference
between a man's being subject to a duty and his
performing it? Is it [a clear sure] the consequence clear
that without more ado a man will begin set about meditating upon holy
things as soon as the moment you have tied his hands
behind him? If it be, then the policy of this
tying his hands behind him will rest upon
the wh beneficial effects which in a political view such meditations
exercises are likely to produce. If it be not,
then the prohibition interdiction then there is nothing more
to be said for it but that & the prohibition interdiction of
amusements on the a sunday is pernicious
an institution the tendency of which is not to
prevent but to promote the corruption of good
morals, but to promote it.

Identifier: | JB/087/058/001 "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	058	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	27583
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