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Place and Time
Pernicious customs when inveterate should be sapped
rather than carried by storm.
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Those moves should be preferred to such means which of
hasty: to remain that dissatisfaction or
participate) gentle means 2 to violent instinct Example,
instruction and exhortation should precede or follow on
stand if possible stand in the place of law
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The slowness of its operation is as far as it goes an objection to a ; but if this slowness matters may be a means of obviating a dissatisfaction which expeditious measures would excite, the former may be preferable. person
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Indirect legislation should be preferred to direct.
The greater the repugnance of the people to
any new law, the greater will be the mischief
which is to be set in the ballance against the
abstract utility of that law.
Is that repugnance likely to be as lasting
as the abr beneficial operation of the law?
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The clear utility of the law will be
as its abstract utility, deduction made of
the intensity and dissatisfaction and other
inconvenience occasioned by it.
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The value of that dissatisfaction will
be in the compound ratio of the
1. The multitude of the persons dissatisfied.
2. The intensity of the dissatisfaction in each
person.
3. The duration of the dissatisfaction in each on the
part of each. person
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