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Indirect Legislation § 6
Satisfying
of relieving him from his necessities: that is principally
to of offences against property: but incidentally,
of any article whatever in the catalogue
of offences: since reward is
an inducement which
may be annexed to
any act whatever, &
may render a man a
partaker in any sort
of crime.
This stimulus wherever it is really the action of
it really takes place to be formed, it is in vain to think of combating
by the force of punishment: because few punishments
can or be greater, and none on account
of the uncertainty and remoteness of their infliction
can appear so great, as the suffering to which
in the case of his not van venturing to running the risk
of incurring them he would remain exposed.
The mischievous effects of this desire are therefore
no otherwise to be guarded against averted on any other terms , than by providing
it with the aliment which it stands
in need of.
Classes into which
for this purpose they
may be divided
1. Industrious
Poor
Establishment for the maintenance of The poor
may are such of them as are re as far as they are such of them as
in as far as the maintenance of them is an object
are requisite in the present point of view,
may be distributed into under the following classes
[Establishments for the maintenance of] 1. Persons
as yet innocent who would be glad to purchase
a maintenance at the expense of their labour,
if they could get any employment body to buy it, but cannot.
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