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Indirect Legislation

Conclusion

in point of political utility tendency effect . What it suffers
even from hatred is again but trifling in comparison
of what it suffers from rapacity: and the violence
of the former passion is every day more
and more enfeebled by the progress of civilization.
The grand capital and inexhaustible source of
mischief is rapacity: against this enemy it behooves lies
the main strength and body of the war combat the legislator to bend all his efforts: now
the direct and primary object of this class of malefactors rapacity, is
the purse: abandon that to them then in easy
terms, so long as their outrages stop there hostilities go no further.
[What may be cured is nothing.] Be indulgent to
this passion so long as it confines itself to theft and sharping and all or any such like quiet peccadillos:
severe, while to it when it rises into robbery:
but severer still even beyond the line of retribution
when it breaks out into the atrocious and alarming horrors
of alarming appalling villainies of murder, and or incendiarism
and or inundations. So long as these are but committed
but one in fifty times in half a century, care not if the others are
committed every day. What can be cured made up is nothing.
Fancy not then that every thing deserves demands death,
and that nothing demands more

Identifier: | JB/087/193/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	193	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	/ / f3 /
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27718
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