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Of Accessory Offences
Instructions to the Legislator, Analytical view.
All wants are linked by with one another
1
As far as we can observe or judge every event
that happens has some or other that is connected
with it in point of a causality: the whole universe
of events here are linked together in one
uninterrupted and infinitely complicated chain.
2
This is the case with acts mostly but not universally the case with acts
This is the case also for the most part
with that particular species of events which are
termed actions: thought not absolutely without exception necessarily and univer-
as in the former case. There are events acts
sometimes with which have no other acts which are connected
with them in the way of causality+ [previous to the
+and which at the same time are in any visible way connected with
intervention arrival of] those events which constitute their
material+ consequences. This is the case for instance
+See Introd. Ch [Of Human Actions] and Tit. [Simp. Falshoods] verbo [material]
sometimes with simple corporal injuries. For men A man
sentence in running to happens to tread upon anothers
suppose standing to of than
foot and He who is thus The persons hurt actuated by the
impulse of sudden resentment, strikes at the former and
knocks him down. Here then in the case of
the second man for certainly, and for any thing
that appears, in that of the first, there are no more
materially distinguishable acts concerned than one.
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