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Civil Introd. 3
instrument of security against damage in the instance
where the damage in question is considered
as liable to result from the act of the individual
himself who is considered as liable to sustain it. or whom it is considerable as liable to fall.
The value of the object characterised denoted expressed by the name
of virtue, the value of virtue, is not the less real for
being subservient and subordinate. It is no impropriety in speech
to say that virtue is not exactly as synonymous
either to security or to happiness. It is no deprivation
of the value importance of virtue in to a state to say that
it is neither the one nor the other nor a self-sufficient
cause of either, it is an efficient cause
of both.
But virtue through virtue be an object subordinate in point of
importance to security, it is a distinct object an
object distinct from security: the care of security
on the part of the legislator does not necessarily comprise
the care of virtue. But being a distinct
object it is also an important one: an object of
sufficient importance to claim the attention possess a claim to the ears of the legislator.
It has therefore a claim title to a place in the
catalogue of the ends of legislation, though in a
line subordinate to that in which security is placed.
The
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