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impracticable. <add>If it produces not satisfaction, at any rate<lb/>it produces resignation. It prevents men from wasting their wishes<lb/>and</add> <note>their endeavours [talents] <lb/>in the search <add>fruitless pursuit</add> of unattainable <lb/>objects, and <lb/>leaves them free to <lb/>pursue with better success such as are <lb/>attainable.</note><lb/><p>If there be any reason for wishing to prevent a crime it<lb/>is only on account of the calamities, the physical evils which<lb/>such crime has a tendency to produce. <add>Accordingly,</add> Although in any case<lb/>there should be no means of preventing the offence itself the purpose<lb/>will [therefore] be equally well answered should the several <lb/>calamities <add>misfortunes</add> be prevented which it is the nature of<lb/>those offences respectively | <p>impracticable. <add>If it produces not satisfaction, at any rate<lb/>it produces resignation. It prevents men from wasting their wishes<lb/>and</add> <note>their endeavours [talents] <lb/>in the search <add>fruitless pursuit</add> of unattainable <lb/>objects, and <lb/>leaves them free to <lb/>pursue with better <lb/>success such as are <lb/>attainable.</note><lb/></p><p>If there be any reason for wishing to prevent a crime it<lb/>is only on account of the calamities, the physical evils which<lb/>such crime has a tendency to produce. <add>Accordingly,</add> Although in any case<lb/>there should be no means of preventing the offence itself the purpose<lb/>will [therefore] be equally well answered should the several <lb/>calamities <add>misfortunes</add> be prevented which it is the nature of<lb/>those offences respectively to produce. Take away the mischiefs,<lb/>the calamities <add>misfortunes</add> , and you take away every reason which a legislator<lb/>can have for wishing to prevent the crimes that<lb/>are the causes of them. It will be contributing in a proportionable<lb/>degree to the same end, if expedients can be found<lb/>out for blunting the edge of those calamities <add>misfortunes</add> . <lb/></p> <note>The view of the motives <lb/>&c will be sufficient to suggest <lb/>to us the limits <lb/>within which<lb/>the possible institutions & the <lb/>possible efficacy <lb/>of those institutions <lb/>will be comprized</note> | ||
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C. 4. Of Preventive Institutions.
impracticable. If it produces not satisfaction, at any rate
it produces resignation. It prevents men from wasting their wishes
and their endeavours [talents]
in the search fruitless pursuit of unattainable
objects, and
leaves them free to
pursue with better
success such as are
attainable.
If there be any reason for wishing to prevent a crime it
is only on account of the calamities, the physical evils which
such crime has a tendency to produce. Accordingly, Although in any case
there should be no means of preventing the offence itself the purpose
will [therefore] be equally well answered should the several
calamities misfortunes be prevented which it is the nature of
those offences respectively to produce. Take away the mischiefs,
the calamities misfortunes , and you take away every reason which a legislator
can have for wishing to prevent the crimes that
are the causes of them. It will be contributing in a proportionable
degree to the same end, if expedients can be found
out for blunting the edge of those calamities misfortunes .
The view of the motives
&c will be sufficient to suggest
to us the limits
within which
the possible institutions & the
possible efficacy
of those institutions
will be comprized
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