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<note>Lycurgus's contrivance<lb/>against<lb/>drunkenness<lb/></note> | <note>Lycurgus's contrivance<lb/>against<lb/>drunkenness<lb/></note> | ||
Lycurgus, if Xenophon is to be believed, <del>made<lb/>his Sp</del> built the common refectories of his Spartans<lb/>at a distance from their homes, in order to keep<lb/>them sober. For says <add>said</add> he to himself, having so far<lb/>to come of a dark-night, they will be afraid to <add>tke care | Lycurgus, if Xenophon is to be believed, <del>made<lb/>his Sp</del> built the common refectories of his Spartans<lb/>at a distance from their homes, in order to keep<lb/>them sober. For says <add>said</add> he to himself, having so far<lb/>to come of a dark-night, they will be afraid to <add>tke care not to have</add><lb/><add>they</add> get drunk, lest they should tumble down and <add>for fear of tumbling down and breaking</add><lb/>break their shins. <note>Thus sobriety would depend <lb/>upon the <gap/><lb/></note> This is <add>stated</add> <sic>deliverd</sic> with gravity<lb/>by the Athenian philosopher [as one of the <add>among the other</add>] deep-<lb/>laid contrivances of the Spartan legislator <add>sage</add> . Upon<lb/>this principle, the act which <add>made</add> passed not many <lb/>years ago for the paving and lighting the streets<lb/>of Oxford was an injudicious <add>impolitic</add> law, [prejudicial<lb/>to the sobriety <add>morals</add> of the student<del>s</del>]. The <add>true</add> policy would<lb/>have been to have <del>thrown</del> dug pitfalls here and<lb/>there in the <del> streets</del> <add><del>foot paths</del> its streets,</add> and whenever <add>as often as</add> an <add>any </add> old house <add>came</add><lb/>was <add>to be</add> pulled down, to have <del>left</del> <add>thrown</add> the materials into<lb/>the <del>streets</del> foot path.<lb/><pb/> | ||
Indirect Legislation
Physical §
Lycurgus's contrivance
against
drunkenness
Lycurgus, if Xenophon is to be believed, made
his Sp built the common refectories of his Spartans
at a distance from their homes, in order to keep
them sober. For says said he to himself, having so far
to come of a dark-night, they will be afraid to tke care not to have
they get drunk, lest they should tumble down and for fear of tumbling down and breaking
break their shins. Thus sobriety would depend
upon the
This is stated deliverd with gravity
by the Athenian philosopher [as one of the among the other] deep-
laid contrivances of the Spartan legislator sage . Upon
this principle, the act which made passed not many
years ago for the paving and lighting the streets
of Oxford was an injudicious impolitic law, [prejudicial
to the sobriety morals of the students]. The true policy would
have been to have thrown dug pitfalls here and
there in the streets foot paths its streets, and whenever as often as an any old house came
was to be pulled down, to have left thrown the materials into
the streets foot path.
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