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Civil
That because the encouragement ought not to
have been given, so follows not that it ought without immediately
farther ceremony more ado to be taken away.⊞ ⊞ 1. A sudden cessation of
profit would be produced
on the part of the individual
thus engaged which
as far as it went would
be in a violation of that
branch of security
which consists in the
protection of expectation
against defeat. The individuals whom
government has thus paid for engaging in a certain
branch of trade, have thus been led to expect into the expectation
of the continuance of the profits thus artificially annexed
to that branch of trade: the cessation of these a stop could not be put to
profits could not be effected these profits by the hand of government without defeating the
expectation thus raised, without producing on the art ofsubjecting the individual,
to a pain of disappointment: in a word without
producing on the part of the individual the same
sort of inconvenience as is produced by a breach
of faith.
2. Besides the cessation of profit, positive loss and that to
a very considerable amount is apt to be the result
of every such sudden stop put to the current course of trade.
If it be the a trade of production a part more or less
of a mans capital has been invested in the purchase
or fabrication of implements which are will not
be of applicable with equal advantage to a different branch. And what
is of much more importance the industry of a multitude of workmen have has been
engaged to take a certain direction from which it
could not in the sudden be diverted into any other channels without
being subjected to a very serious loss. If it be the
trade
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