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you will not be at every turn reduced to say Lire perquam darcum est redita lux
t: that is hard, but thus the Law is written - but this might he say the Law is written & this
the reason for why it is it's being so written.- A The Subject would not sooner find in your works the obligations he has
ntracted, than he would learn the reason he had to felicitate himself that he had contracted
in - the Judgment would be informed at the same time that the Judiciary tranasserted:
d instruction and satisfaction would go hand in hand together.
every] a man would then be enabled to give a better reason for the of theory the prejudices of his education
the Reverence of the Laws that is within him: by founding that Reverence upon its an
moveable and it's proper only solid basis, he would learn not to extend it to those parts of it them to
ich that Maris does not extend: equally inaccessible to the blind temerity that would
- level turning every thing on the one hand and to the Hydrophobia of innovations on the other: he would
with equal [perspicacity clearness ] why some parts fixed for ever established upon upon that Maris should
for ever and established, as why others projecting over it [in a tottering rain] to the great weakness <add> & deformity important, Fabric of the general structure </add>should be removed
and of all monstrous propositions, none can be so monstrous
as that a being of purport benevolence should
require us to any
portion of that happiness
[to] which he has given us
capacity to attain
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being subjected to unnecessary careless portion of & artificial pain
is an inequality [for which nobody is the better &] which
cannot too soon be redressed. To point out where it
subsists and how it may be redressed is the business subject <add> decision </add> of the this present work treatise
that there is no occasion use, and of there be no use there is
much inconvenience in maintaining any distinction
Acts which have no effect but in
Acts which a certain number by their indirectness or their secrecy coercion
elude the influence of artificial Sanctions
& it seems no illegitimate inference that God never willed
should do that which he has given no motives; that is
it be maintained that a man can not without a motive
be true that we cannot act without motives,) no means of
It is the dictates of Morality which being
a System are invested with by the Title of Nature
or the Law of Nature.
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legislation |
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introd. law - division into natural, divine and municipal |
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erroneous division - its source, and consequences |
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jeremy bentham |
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