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they think is concerned in making the attempt:
and the human depravity of mankind mankind human nature
is answerable for the failure. To allow [they think]
is a [in appearance] the same thing as to approve: They do not not sufficiently
considering sufficiently consider that government throughout is but
a choice of evils: and that as in all instances
where it takes an active
part
[as in all prohibitions ] wherever an active
evil is good done that good may come
so there may be cases in which evil may
be [tolerated] suffer'd left unprohibited lest worse should
follow lest if a cure be attempted the remedy
should be worse that the disease. The latter
course one should think would be a less matter
for a man to bring himself to than the former:
and so it would. But that when once the mind law
has got it's impulse the vis inertiæ [of the mind]
is alike favourable to its perseverence in a state
of activity as of rest. To this course of unprofitable
activity legislators are the more prone,
inasmuch as the mischiefs which result from
it, considerable as they are are so little calculated
to make an effectual impression
on the mind.
lie so remote from observation. For of
all political mischiefs there are none perhaps
to which men are more generally insensible, than
those which result from the imbecility that is brought
upon infused into the the system by
[contempt that grows
upon] laws that can not be are neither obey'd nor executed at all,
and the abuses that grow out of fasten upon those that which can
not be executed to any purpose.

Identifier: | JB/087/075/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	2, 1
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	075	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f29 / f30 / f31 / f32
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	27600
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