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Being unable Neither being able to assign reasons for their
belief the contest is carried in favour of their
, the most active and numerous.

The want absence of some act test of stand standard of morality acknowledged
by the mass of by the people it is which gives rise Law
the false morality the class interests and class feelings
adverse to the general good are by classes fashioned
into their own or measuring of right and wrong.
If day It is only by means of words well with of
definitions and distinctions an acknowledged definitions standard
and distinctions that the use of these false measures
can be prevented or that those vindictive
contests can be obviated where both partizans of opposite
dogmas fo having expended their words, fight each
in the perfect conviction of fighting for the right.

Nor is it in small affairs alone great affairs alone
that there is immense mischiefs are exacted by this want of words well snuffed
with the distinctions and definitions. In the every day
transactions of life the same such evils are constantly
sustained that engendered as would ensue were the value of the
common numeral figures used with uncertainty or with
a differ varying understanding of their value, as
if for example the figure 5 were understood by
one some one party as meaning three, by another
as meaning six, by another something totally
different in quantity specie as well as quantity.
If this interests , is one.

The work before as is the most important for the
of has
is the next in importance for the
science of ethics of deontology public and private that has appeared since the
publication of the Traite de legislation.

This indistinctness with which ideas are denoted leads
to the to this: that indistinctness of
conception leads to indis uncertainty of action
and to all the consequences of parties interpreting
the signiffication of words according to their
The desires as to what should be their
signiffication.

The importance of
good definitions is proportioned to the not is of importance. lawyer terms the as comprehending a multitude
of others and as being of constant action should
application.


Identifier: | JB/149/320/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

149

Main Headings

fragment on government (defence of economy)

Folio number

320

Info in main headings field

political terms

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

3

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::sparks & adcock 1828 [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

guillaume louis ternaux

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1828

Notes public

ID Number

50174

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