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Indirect Legislation

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In this point of view then the following may be
looked upon as events incidents favourable to the virtue & happiness
of society, and such as which [on that ground] it is incumbent

good policy in the legislator sovereign in as far as it lies
in his way to promote and encourage, and
which at any rate it b is incumbent on him
not to any thing to discourage. I will mentionbring to
them view a few of them in their order, beginning at with what are
considerd as reckoned among the grossest & most sensual, & proceeding
to such as are more refined.

1. The introduction of Introduction of Improvements in the art of
cookery; in the art of preparing and of the art of gardening as far as concerns the solid part
of our food. the table.

2. [ Introduction of Improvements made in the] art of [ preparing]
uninebriating liquors; among which tea at present
makes a distinguished figure. These two articles
ignoble as they may appear, are the more
serviceable inasmuch as they come so directly
in competition with the vice of drunkenness.

3. A taste for Improvements made in the comforts & elegances The elegances of dress and furniture.

4. The invention and diversification of games &
pastimes: whether athletic or sedentary: among which
latter cards we may distinguish cards, the good effects
have been remarked and spoken of in warmdressed in warm colours
terms by an ingenious writer, See Lettre sur le jeu
des cartes at the end of
the Traite de la circulation
& du credit. attributed Amsterdam,
1771: 8vo attributed to
Mr Pinto.
making all allowance
for the bad. I exclude only games of
mere hazard.

If these things are luxuries, luxuries are sources
the sources of virtue not so much of vice, as of virtue
when virtue is any thing better than
a

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	063	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	004	Titles
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