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In this point of view then the following may be<lb/>looked upon as events <add>incidents</add> favourable to the <add>virtue & </add> happiness<lb/>of society, and such as <add>which</add> [on that ground] it is incumbent<lb/><lb/><add>good policy</add> in the legislator <add>sovereign</add> in as far as it lies<lb/>in his way to promote and encourage, and<lb/>which at any rate it <del>b</del> is incumbent on him<lb/>not to any thing to discourage. I will mention<add>bring to</add><lb/>them <add>view a few of them</add> in their order, beginning <del>at</del> with what are<lb/><sic>considerd</sic> as <add>reckoned among</add> the grossest & most sensual, & proceeding<lb/>to such as are more refined.<lb/><p>1. <del>The introduction of</del> <add>Introduction of</add> Improvements in the art of<lb/>cookery; in the art of preparing <add>and of the art of gardening as far as concerns</add> the solid part <lb/>of our food. <add>the table.</add></p><p>2. [ <add>Introduction of</add> Improvements <del>made</del> in the] art of <del>[</del> preparing]<lb/>uninebriating liquors; among which tea at present<lb/>makes a distinguished figure. These two articles<lb/>ignoble as they may appear, are the more<lb/>serviceable inasmuch as they come so directly<lb/>in competition with the vice of drunkenness.<lb/></p><p>3. <add>A taste for Improvements made in the comforts & elegances</add> The elegances of dress and furniture.<lb/></p><p>4. The invention and diversification of games &<lb/>pastimes: whether athletic or sedentary: among which<lb/>latter <del>cards</del> we may distinguish cards, the good effects<lb/>have been remarked and spoken of in warm<add>dressed in warm colours</add><lb/>terms by an ingenious writer, <note>See Lettre sur le jeu<lb/>des cartes at the end of<lb/>the Traite de la circulation<lb/>& du credit. <del>attributed</del> Amsterdam,<lb/>1771: <add>8vo</add> attributed to<lb/>M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Pinto.<lb/></note> | <p>In this point of view then the following may be<lb/>looked upon as events <add>incidents</add> favourable to the <add>virtue & </add> happiness<lb/>of society, and such as <add>which</add> [on that ground] it is incumbent<lb/><lb/><add>good policy</add> in the legislator <add>sovereign</add> in as far as it lies<lb/>in his way to promote and encourage, and<lb/>which at any rate it <del>b</del> is incumbent on him<lb/>not to any thing to discourage. I will mention<add>bring to</add><lb/>them <add>view a few of them</add> in their order, beginning <del>at</del> with what are<lb/><sic>considerd</sic> as <add>reckoned among</add> the grossest & most sensual, & proceeding<lb/>to such as are more refined.<lb/></p><p>1. <del>The introduction of</del> <add>Introduction of</add> Improvements in the art of<lb/>cookery; in the art of preparing <add>and of the art of gardening as far as concerns</add> the solid part <lb/>of our food. <add>the table.</add></p><p>2. [ <add>Introduction of</add> Improvements <del>made</del> in the] art of <del>[</del> preparing]<lb/>uninebriating liquors; among which tea at present<lb/>makes a distinguished figure. These two articles<lb/>ignoble as they may appear, are the more<lb/>serviceable inasmuch as they come so directly<lb/>in competition with the vice of drunkenness.<lb/></p><p>3. <add>A taste for Improvements made in the comforts & elegances</add> The elegances of dress and furniture.<lb/></p><p>4. The invention and diversification of games &<lb/>pastimes: whether athletic or sedentary: among which<lb/>latter <del>cards</del> we may distinguish cards, the good effects<lb/>have been remarked and spoken of in warm<add>dressed in warm colours</add><lb/>terms by an ingenious writer, <note>See Lettre sur le jeu<lb/>des cartes at the end of<lb/>the Traite de la circulation<lb/>& du credit. <del>attributed</del> Amsterdam,<lb/>1771: <add>8vo</add> attributed to<lb/>M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Pinto.<lb/></note> making all allowance<lb/>for the bad. I exclude only games of<lb/>mere hazard.<lb/></p><!-- The following paragraph, beginning at the bottom of the page and continuing in the margin, is in pencil. --><p>If these things are luxuries, luxuries are sources<lb/><del>the sources of virtue</del> not so much of <hi rend="underline">vice</hi>, as of <hi rend="underline"> virtue</hi><lb/> when virtue is any thing <gap/> <add>better</add> than<lb/>a <gap/><lb/></p><pb/> | ||
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8
Indirect Legislation
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In this point of view then the following may be
looked upon as events incidents favourable to the virtue & happiness
of society, and such as which [on that ground] it is incumbent
good policy in the legislator sovereign in as far as it lies
in his way to promote and encourage, and
which at any rate it b is incumbent on him
not to any thing to discourage. I will mentionbring to
them view a few of them in their order, beginning at with what are
considerd as reckoned among the grossest & most sensual, & proceeding
to such as are more refined.
1. The introduction of Introduction of Improvements in the art of
cookery; in the art of preparing and of the art of gardening as far as concerns the solid part
of our food. the table.
2. [ Introduction of Improvements made in the] art of [ preparing]
uninebriating liquors; among which tea at present
makes a distinguished figure. These two articles
ignoble as they may appear, are the more
serviceable inasmuch as they come so directly
in competition with the vice of drunkenness.
3. A taste for Improvements made in the comforts & elegances The elegances of dress and furniture.
4. The invention and diversification of games &
pastimes: whether athletic or sedentary: among which
latter cards we may distinguish cards, the good effects
have been remarked and spoken of in warmdressed in warm colours
terms by an ingenious writer, See Lettre sur le jeu
des cartes at the end of
the Traite de la circulation
& du credit. attributed Amsterdam,
1771: 8vo attributed to
Mr Pinto.
making all allowance
for the bad. I exclude only games of
mere hazard.
If these things are luxuries, luxuries are sources
the sources of virtue not so much of vice, as of virtue
when virtue is any thing better than
a
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