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Indirect Legislation

Knowledge § 5

Knowledge subservient
either to
inclination or to
power — its it
encreases the inducements
or the
means.

Knowledge, though commonly mentioned apart
from power, is [in truth] a branch a part at least of power:
a branch of that power of which the seat is in the
mind. Before a man can do an act, there are
two things he must know: the inducements which
there are for his doing it, and the means he has of doing
it: knowledge accordingly is either of the inducements
or of the means: the first he must
possess in order to possess the inclination: the latter,
in order to possess the power. It is the latter
which men commonly most frequently have in view, where
knowledge is spoken of as the instrument of
vice.

[Under this head nothing is to be done: and
I mention for this purpose only, in order to shew
that nothing is to be done: lest it should be thought
that advantages have been passed over which
might have been laid hold of.]

This head is ment set down among the rest
for the sake of symmetry: and that the reader may lest it should be thought
that so large a part of the subject had been passed by unexplored. have the satisfaction of observing that no part of
the
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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	095	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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