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Keymes's Law Tracts p. 306.
"Resentment the spring and foundation of
Punishment, ought to be buried with the
Criminal — mentioned as a reason for Criminal
process ceasing after Death.

OBSTACLES PREJUGÉS Professional — against THEORY X PRACTISE.

There is no good foundation of the opposition betwixt Theory &
Practise, or for the common saying such such upon which a Proposition has been
said to be good in Theory but bad in practise."
is this — the consequence of this inaccurate
and abusive expression has been that the establishment
of general principles in practical
Sciences has been discouraged & considered as useless
not upon the pretence of their being false, but
merely because they are general. Such a proposition
people will sometimes be ready is good in theory but it
won't due do in practise — they will pronounce
decisively such a proposition to be false, not on account
of any falsity they have proved or think of proving in it but merely because it is
general — and therefore they think they have
found a sure way to escape Error by laying
down none but particular positions — and yet
if they were to take the pains to examine the
construction of their argument, they would find
that all the foundation these particular positions have
is in some general principles lies in their being necessary consequences from which they tacitly
refer to, recognize without express acknowledge & in such a manner that if those general
propositions are false erroneous, their [the] particular [positions
[in question] have no foundation whatsoever Thus
by not examining and establishing those general positions,
by not enquiring they think they escape
error — by proving them, they think they should run into w—

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