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To be copied a greater crime than another.

Or to instance again in one of his divine
or natural duties. — the maintenance of Children — A state may exist, a state
did exist, where this was not only no duty,
but even a misdemesnor. Where the relation
between Parent & Child was in a manner
annihilated; all children being declared
Children of the State at large, & not of
this or that particular Pr Parent.—

In a word;* the declaratory part of a Law, whether divine
or human is not not to define what is good or evil, in
our author's sense of the words: — if indeed
he affixes any determinate sense to
the words but what is hereafter to them: —much less is it to give the qualities of good or evil; but
be lawful or unlawful; i.e. permitted its business is <add>simply to declare what is hereafter to</add>
or disallowed —
by the Legislature. The wisdom of This much indeed we
may fairly conclude: that as the wisdom of
all Legislatures, whether human, or
divine, is or ought to be employed in
discovering what actions will produce
happiness, what misery to the Society, over which
they preside: so though so </del> their will is or ought to be employed
in enjoining what appears to them productive the one, & prohibiting what appears
productive the other: Yet it does not follow, that their or

Our author seems to have been aware, that his

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Identifier: | JB/096/050/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.

Date_1

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Box

096

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

Folio number

050

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c126

Penner

168

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[lion with vryheyt motif]]]

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]

ID Number

31054

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