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Indirect
Rewarding
Extent in whichWould any one wish to see know the bounds extent
within by which the application of this principle is
circumscribed? they may be determined in an instant.
It can not be applied in any of the cases
in which reward is not applicable: but it may
in any in which it is: and it acts may be made to act with a force
proportionable to the necessity a man is under of
the thing of which the reward is made. It can not
be employ'd applied to the prevention of crimes or other offences misdeeds,
commissible by persons at large: since to this purpose
reward is not applicable for reasons that have divers
reasons any one of which is conclusive. See Essay on Reward
It can not
be applied to the procurement of any of those negative
kinds of service services, if such they may be termed, which
consist in the merely forbearing to do mischief: for to this purpose
reward itself is not
applicable for divers
reasons any one of which
is conclusive. See Essay on Reward.
it can only
be applied to the procurement of such pos services those positive kinds
of services of the positive kind which consist in doing good.
It can not be applied to the prevention of crimes or
other misdeeds commissible by persons at large: it
can only be applied [in public and private life]
to the prevention of misdeeds commissible by persons
in office and others who receive pay, whether in
public
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