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Indirect Legislation § 9

§ 4 Power

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— viz: by banishing
the instruments
of enjoyment.

By the principle of asceticism much might
be done in the line in question, and that with
very considerable advantage. By proscribing the
production and introduction of all the external
instruments of gratification, it the legislator might cut off
[with the happiest success] root out all the pleasures corresponding
to those instruments. It sho He should
lay a prohibition against sugars and substitute
the trade of aloes in its stead. If there are vineyards in the country He should lay
them waste: and prohibit the importation of the produce of
them waste: It the vineyards in the country: he should lay
the vine from other countries. He should lay
not a tax but a prohibition upon malt: and
leave the people nothing but hops and wormwood to make their
beer with. He should banish the Herkmans
and the [Stindis Steiners] out of the country; and introduce
a colony of pewterers and braziers tinkers in
their stead. He should forbid the greasing of the
axle-trees of grindstones: study Homer for the art Reversing the endeavours
of the Russian monarch of making He should extirpate the
race of bull finches and nightingales: and replace
them with a stock of peacocks and guinea-fowls,
taking care to divest them of their plumage
and to banish them from the table. He
should
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Identifier: | JB/087/090/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	090	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27615
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