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as far as by general inconsequent and invitation
it may be more in the power of the legislator than of the
individual to furnish hopes for engaging with advantage
in such a taste, or motives for engaging in it.

But if what the legislator has it in his power
to do for virtue is comparatively inconsiderable,
the least thing he can do in relation to in favour of it is to
abstain from such measures as not being necessary
to the superior purpose of security, operate against virtue.
If it be difficult for him to act with effect against
drunkenness for example, at least to the least that may be expected
of him is to abstain from affording
that encouragement to drunkenness and idleness
which is afforded by abstaining from measures
calculated to repress those vices for no other reason
that the opinion of their being calculated to produce
that effect. If it be a matter of difficulty for him
to secure an undeviating observance adherence of the laws of
veracity, at least may be abstain from

Identifier: | JB/100/163/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 100.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	100	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	163	Info in main headings field	civil introd.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	32179
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