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Promulgation § 16
-considerate, they would still be much less inconsiderate
than the bulk of legislators are at present. The book
would at any rate be in the same house with those
who were to take their orders from it: if it was not
absolutely locked up from them they would soon
know learn where to meet with it: it would be of a moderate
size, how minute and various soever were
the contents: and they would not any of them have
any thing to pay for looking into it, much less a
such would any of them have [such a sum to pay
for it as was more than he could raise] more to
pay for it than he could raise: still less would
she expect that the any omissions in it were to should be helped out
by inferences from orders which her grandmothers
and great-grandmothers t were re might be conjectured
to have given centuries ago.
To one then who will look round him and
observe, how far the [care and ingenuity management of the ]
wisest of statesmen hitherto falls short is inferior of th in this
respect of the to to that of any old woman who keeps house
the idea of paying a separate attention to the business
of providing for the promulgation may not appear a trifling
one.
In this view the following rules in the way of
memento at least may seem proper to be set down adverted to
requisite to be brought to view. under the present head.
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