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1825 June 25
Rationale of Reward
§.2
Of the cause waste and corruption they produced, On best
of depredation, in high places has not been the only efficient psychological efficient
cause. Of in Sympathy nearsighted and unreflecting sympathy — this shapes one cause may be honest narrow
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has been another minded and unreflecting sympathy In men some
somebody to the high functionary in whom the will the grant depends
for such all Such in - en put deed being a
Wife and a multitude of children all compleatly
destitute! Oh to be sure something must be done for them
cries the great man who born and bred in luxury thinks for a moment
what would be his own feelings in the same case. To him the the great one
accident is matter of surprize. But to the little man
to whom it has happened it never can have been a matter
of surprize. To him can it have been a secret that he
some how or other be well due? as little that if he
marries and chooses a few children it may happen to him to he may have children children in any number and
that if his wife has no means of breeding for herself in
children in the want of her becoming a widow, they must suffer
accordingly.
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Out of provision of retreat
has been another In this as in other cases, by By the minute object close to the eye, the worstdistinct
object, however vast , distance from is essentially interposed. Sole object seems
an individual for whom the money is wanted: Object , the number
out of whose hands it must be found
(a) If such be the affect
where the allowance is
£5 a year what must
it be when it is £50
£500, or £5000?
Exception accepted what is called Charity is a
bounty upon improvidence and as such gives increase
to the very evil it seeks to exclude. (a).
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(a)With consent Note (a)
force of argumentand satisfactoriness this proposition may be seen demonstrated
and applied, in the Westminster Review Ao 1825 No late periodical publication. Time for
adequate examination being wanting, whether all the exceptions
what the nature of the case requires to be taken out of
the present rule are then accordingly taken, is more than at present I can stand assured
of. The exception would be - those cases and those alone -
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in which Homat will not operate as a bounty or improvidence,
(a) Westminster Review Ao 1825 No Page
in such sort as to be productive of evil to a greater amount than what it excludes.
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