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Civil Introd. 3

The care of virtue on the part of the legislator is subordinate to the care
of security in another point of view. Whatever is
there for security, unless indirectly in an indirect way indirectly through
some such medium as virtue must be done by the
legislator, while on the other hand comparatively speaking⊞ ⊞ and except in as far as the care taken when is done with an immediate view to security operates in favour of virtue there is very little
he can do for virtue. By punishing and otherwise
discouraging repressing by punishment and otherwise
acts repressitve of damage in its several shapes, he
encourages favours the disposition to abstain from acts productive
of damage, and so far favours virtue: but
in so doing he this process virtue is favoured taken care of in an indirect
way when, and so far only as security is taken
care of. Exclusive of this care the most powerful
helps that can be given to virtue is by pointing
out and that in the clearest light the natural connection that subsists
between virtue and interest: as far as in the case of probity
is concerned between the interest of the persons in question others, and and
the interest of the person individual in question: as far as prudence
is concerned, in the by pointing out the connection
between the interest of a whole life and the
interest of the moment and the interest of the whole
life. But this sort of help is no other than what any
individual may afford: if in this point of view
it be in the power of the legislator to do anything
more than can be done by the individual, it is only in
as

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	100	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	162	Info in main headings field	civil introd.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	32178
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