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1829. July 10.
(4.)

True it is that another case in
which mercy is said to be exercised is that in
which punishment which would otherwise
be applied, is, instead of being diminished,
kept unapplied withholden altogether. But in this case, a quantity
of punishment customarily applied to the species
of offence in question, is considered in an
aggregate mass; and in this case so it is, that
while to the individual lot, total exclusion is
applied, to the aggregate mass not total exclusion,
but only diminution is applied.

A sort of error pervading the whole
field of language is the taking from the observation
of a sign, i.e. a substantive, constitutive of a
name, common or proper, inferring without reflexion,
and by the mere force of the association principle,
the existence of a correspondent object signified.
Thus, in the present case, the word justice used
as the name of a thing, being in continual use,
is seem to be in existence; here we have the antecedent;
therefore, so is a thing, so is the thing
signified by it: here we have the consequence.

As it is with justice in this respect,
so is it with power — liberty, and many others.

1. First as to power. In Locke's Essay,
by the word power, if memory is not deceitful, no
small quantity of matter is occupied; and from this
cause, no small degree of obscurity produced.
Power is the name of a particular sort of
fictitious entity, and as it is with other fictitious entities,
so with this, that to get rid of the fiction and to
the language of fiction to substitute that of realities, a proposition
in which no name of a fictitious entity has place, must be employed.
So



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Date_1

1829-07-10

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

106

Main Headings

Folio number

400

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c4

Penner

john flowerdew colls

Watermarks

b&m 1829

Marginals

Paper Producer

arthur moore; richard doane

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1829

Notes public

ID Number

34988

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