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So little is Preventive Legislation in vogue, that it is
a common and popular objection to a Law calculated to
oppose a mischief, that no such mischief has yet been
felt: how plainly soever the probability of it might always
have been read in human Nature.
No thoughts of resisting the enemy, till he be already in our quarters.
Is a Turnip stolen or destroyed? measures are taken to
that it may be done no more — Should + + some luckless Genius carry his eye beyond the . . . . . . up gets his Neighbour & reminds him a man propose to
extend the same the preservation to carrots or Potatoes that
there is no evidence has been given to shew that the latter
article has been made the subject of distinction: It is
odds however if this be all he hears: if his forecast be not
treated as chimerical if it be not censured as a Multiplus
of penal Laws, as a Speculatist, a Schemer, an Utopian.
By & by (who could have thought it) His Neighbours Potatoes
shares the same misfortune: This opens his Comprehension:
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another Statute for Potatoes: in the Preamble of —
which care is taken to assure Posterity least Posterity should may not imagine
it was made without a reason, to inform them that this was
not done upon . . . . speculation, for that &c" divers and
sundry wicked & evil minded persons "had actually done
this unimaginable deed.
Thus it is that men betake themselves to the opposal of an
evil precisely at the time when they are worst disposed for
it, that is when they are treated heated by its sufferance.
And thus it must will ever be continue, while the Law, by the choice
of some, and the dispair of others is continued continues Labyrinth, whose profit it is to be the guider in
which men see no further than the path which they tread
unable to reach that inconvenience eminence from which the distances
& bearings of the whole together + + of each part from every other may be descried.
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OBSTACLES. Legislators . Want of comprehension in thoir [BR.][ ][ ] views.
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