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<note>7. Against emigration<lb/>by artificers<lb/></note> | |||
<p><add>7</add>. It would likewise be of considerable efficacy in<lb/>preventing the emigration of artificers, and the<lb/>like: if ever it can <del>be eligible</del> <add>consist with utility </add>to render the country<lb/> a prison to the most valuable of it's inhabitants. <hi rend="superscript">(a)</hi><lb/> <note><hi rend="superscript">(a)</hi> Class. 4. Division<lb/>Offences against<lb/>population.<lb/></note></p> | |||
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<note>8. Its use in <lb/>facilitating the<lb/> numbering of the <lb/>people<lb/></note> | |||
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Under this head too it may be worth noticing<lb/>that the in the <del>operating</del> <add>business</add> of numbering the people<lb/>the expedient of marking by fixing the personality<lb/>of each individual <del>will give</del> may be a <lb/>means of giving a degree of exactness to the operation,<lb/>which it would be scarce practicable to<lb/>give it by any other means.<lb/></p> | |||
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Disadvantages <lb/>of such a measure<lb/>1. it would probably <lb/>be unpopular<lb/></note> | |||
<p>By way of counterbalance to all these<lb/> advantages <add>good effects</add> it would be open to two capital<lb/>objections. [In the first place there is] the danger<lb/>of it's being disrelished by the people: [in the next<lb/>place there is] the danger of it's being favourable<lb/>to tyranny, by throwing too much power into the<lb/>hands of <del>a bad</del> <add>an arbitrary</add> government, and rendering the<lb/>political sanction too independent of the moral.<lb/>The first objection of it should not be <gap/><lb/>will <add>ought</add> at least to operate as a caution respecting<lb/></p><note>the</note><lb/><pb/> | |||
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Indirect Legislation
Political
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7. Against emigration
by artificers
7. It would likewise be of considerable efficacy in
preventing the emigration of artificers, and the
like: if ever it can be eligible consist with utility to render the country
a prison to the most valuable of it's inhabitants. (a)
(a) Class. 4. Division
Offences against
population.
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8. Its use in
facilitating the
numbering of the
people
Under this head too it may be worth noticing
that the in the operating business of numbering the people
the expedient of marking by fixing the personality
of each individual will give may be a
means of giving a degree of exactness to the operation,
which it would be scarce practicable to
give it by any other means.
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Disadvantages
of such a measure
1. it would probably
be unpopular
By way of counterbalance to all these
advantages good effects it would be open to two capital
objections. [In the first place there is] the danger
of it's being disrelished by the people: [in the next
place there is] the danger of it's being favourable
to tyranny, by throwing too much power into the
hands of a bad an arbitrary government, and rendering the
political sanction too independent of the moral.
The first objection of it should not be
will ought at least to operate as a caution respecting
the
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