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-ment and by that means or by other means
acquire what money is necessary the sum he
wishes to come home with, he may be sent
for home. If then he comes home and chooses to live at home and party
runs high against him, and he is proscribed
and that criminally, and the fortune of the case is impermeable laid open<add>adverse</add> to
him, and judges are severe, he refunds a fifty
fiftieth or a hundredth part of his gains: if
he chooses to live abroad, judges may do as they
please, he keeps the whole.
Such Of this sort are the means which the English
law affords at present for the maintenance of government
in Bengal.
If the country has hitherto escaped absolute
distinction, if the lust of power and the thirst
of riches have hitherto been kept within any tolerable
bounds, + + to what causes is this blessing due? we must attribute it to the force
of the moral sanction, and not to that of the political:
to manners, not to laws.
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