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Indirect Legislation
Power §4
In any other way there does not seem to
be much is not to be done at least to any advantage
by towards the prevention of delinquency by taking from men that
share of power which depends upon the state &
condition of other external the objects that are about them.
objects that are liable to become the subjects or
instruments of offence.
Removing implements
of idolatry
among the Jews
Of The Jewish priests who were wise in their own
generation at least were not unwise took particular
it was the special care to remove the incitements
of that [crime] which to in their eyes was the greatest
of all crimes, the offering adoration to Gods whom
their rivals had set up.
Every body knows The care that was taken by
the Jewish priests, to remove altars and high-places
[and other implements of religion] among the gentile
nations is sufficiently notorious conspicuous. [These priests in their own generation at least
were not unwise.] These article implements were regarded
by them as incitements to that which in
their eyes was the greatest of all crimes, the offering listing
adoration under the banners of those gods whose
ministers were their competitors for power.
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