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24 July 1810 14
Fallacies Note continued
Ch. Cause & Obstacle
§ Universities I. Virtue
§.1. Virtue Universities
Sac
ult

1 7

10(a)
16. Discovery made
by him in legislation,
that to a legislator
who under pain of
punishment prohibits
an offence a crime, it is matter
of indifference whether
the offence crime be abstained
from or the punishment
suffered.

One On the subject of legislation a discovery
made by this Right Reverend Member of the Upper
House of Parliament is not remarkable less conspicuous
presents a particular prominent special claim to notice.

When in making a prohibitory law suppose say for instance
for the preservation of property by the prevention of against
theft stealing, a legislator says to his people — abstain
from stealing or you shall be hanged, an alternative
as the Right Reverend as is truly observe according to the an observation
made by (observe the Right Reverend cas leader of conscience
and very ) is thus offered to their every man's choice Now what, if any, is it
most in the making of such a law is the state of the object of the legislators
? wishes? Is it that all men should abstain from
stealing? is it that all men should abstain from be hanged?
or is or is it that in his (the legislator's) eyes, the the choices they make between [the abstinence the abstinence and the hanging
proposed to them on the one hand and the suffering the choice made between abstinence and hanging is
presented to their view] a matter of compleat indifference? indifference?
— Of compleat indifference, says the Right
Reverend teacher of conscience: — aut hoc fas
m, aut ilend puti: either keep Choose — whichever
you like is most agreeable to you says his S Lordship legislator, it is all the
same to me: either keep your hands from stealing,
or when you have been in case of your being found out and convicted, go
go up quietly to the gallows quietly, without making a disturbance. "Yes," (adds the Reverend Right Reverend Lecturer
leader of conscience re of doubts: one or other you are bound to of these things
conscience such is her severity Conscience absolutely insists on: but
whether it shall be the one or the other, such is her blindness
she
she leaves to your
own choice.

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