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1 Novr 1814
Logic
II. In the case of the moral or popular or moral sanction
the source or root of the pleasure or pain regarded as eventually
about to accrue have place is in the good or ill offices
of mankind at large, those or of such of its members to whom
the knowledge information of the act conduct or transaction in question may
happen to come arrive: viz. 1. in the degree of estimation in which
on the occasion of the act in question the agent is regarded as
likely to be held or in other words in the opinion good or
bad – favourable or unfavourable like to be entertained in
relation to him: thence in the mental sensation pleasant or
unpleasant of which the idea of the act as likely to be
productive: in his mind; thence in the good or ill offices (in the case
of good offices commonly expressed labourers by the word
services)
To this sanction To the sanction here in question Popular – for the employing of the word popular for in Answer – In this circumstance consideration – viz. that the people
the appellation of popular
the designation of the sort of sanction here in question
what (it may be noted) is the ground or warrant?
at large without distinction of persons are the persons at
whose hands the good and evil in question are respectively
expected: the good and evil, viz. of the good
may be the result of the good offices which the people at large
freely and without concern may in the consideration in
question respectively feel themselves efficiently adequately disposed to render: of
the evil, whatsoever may be the result of such evil offices
as the same persons are left
left free to render, to the person in whom and whose conduct
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