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Indirect Legislation

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Were even that not [to be] the case I should
still it would still not be clear to me that it
were worth the while of the legislator to trouble himself
about the matter. Upon the principle of asceticism
it would might; as also upon the principle of
sympathy and antipathy. But upon the principle
of utility I see not how it should, unless
under the notion of preventing a detriment to
population. But upon this head I must acknowledge
[myself to be of] that the opinion of Montesquieu,
Hume, and Dr Smith is mine: that population will every
where be as the means facility of subsistence: that in
the labouring and productive classes of men the only classes in which
[it is of use to multiply] an encrease of population
is of use those will always who desire to have
children will always be enough: that in this
respect the state would lose nothing by leaving giving
them at the most perfect liberty: and that
when protection is once afforded men men from
against calamity] against external and internal
[injury] and against the hostile powers of nature]
[the only man in the kingd state by whom
an offense against population can be committed
is the sovereign himself.] population has no
other enemy to fear than the sovereign himself.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	099	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	27624
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