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Indirect Legislation


If in truth it were at variance it ought
to be discarded without hesitation because
we have better evidence of the moral effects
of any institution than we can possibly
have of it

There is not a single text for it.

To justify this act to in short to justify
the excluding of people [from amusement as well as
labour] from every occupation pleasurable as
well as profitable laborious useful on a sunday two propositions
must be taken for granted: the one is that amusement
which is innocent every six days [in the week]
changes its nature [regularly] and becomes mischievous
every seventh: the other is, that idleness which all
the rest of the
in its very nature is confessedly proverbially
the root of all evil, is at the same time the
support of holiness. But these are propositions
to neither of which I must own do I know how
to





















Identifier: | JB/087/061/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

087

Main Headings

indirect legislation

Folio number

061

Info in main headings field

indirect legislation

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

[[page_numbering::f19[?] / / /]]

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

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

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

27586

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