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<add>else.</add> This to its apprehension is the <hi rend="underline"><foreign>point saillant</foreign></hi><lb/>of <add>in</add> every act: in comparison of which it<lb/>turns aside but unwillingly to the <add><gap/> & intricate</add> considerations of<lb/>strict utility. <del>And</del> Moreover <add>as on the one hand</add> the depravity of<lb/>the disposition where the act is seen to be a<lb/>bad one, is the greater, the longer a man<lb/>reflects upon it: as it shews him to have been<lb/>so much longer under the influence of some<lb/>seducing motive: and on the other hand ,<add>inasmuch as</add> knowledge<lb/><del>on is the result of reflec</del> on the part<lb/>of him who first lit upon it at least is the<lb/>result of reflection, the knowledge which a man<lb/>has of any subject <del>will</del> <add>may</add> naturally enough be<lb/>received as an indication of the degree of reflection<lb/>he has <sic>bestow'd</sic> upon it. But <del>upon<lb/>the principle of utility,</del> the mischievousness of<lb/><del>the</del> <add>an</add> offence which is what the principle of<lb/>utility [founds its judgments on] looks to, is<lb/>not determined solely by the depravity of the<lb/>disposition. It depends immediately upon the<lb/>sufferings of the persons who are affected by<lb/>the offence taking into the account those to<lb/>whom the alarm & <add><del>and the</del></add> <del>of</del> the <del>offence</del> danger of other<lb/>similar offences may accrue as well as the actual<lb/>pain occasioned by the individual offence:<lb/>and in the <del>constitution</del> <add>composition</add> of the mischief as thus estimated<lb/>the depravity of the offender's disposition is but an<lb/>aggravating and not an essential circumstance.<lb/><note>Princ. of Legisl. Introd.<lb/>ch. xii. [Consequences] par. 35.<lb/></note><pb/> | |||
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Indirect Legislation
§5 Knowledge
else. This to its apprehension is the point saillant
of in every act: in comparison of which it
turns aside but unwillingly to the & intricate considerations of
strict utility. And Moreover as on the one hand the depravity of
the disposition where the act is seen to be a
bad one, is the greater, the longer a man
reflects upon it: as it shews him to have been
so much longer under the influence of some
seducing motive: and on the other hand ,inasmuch as knowledge
on is the result of reflec on the part
of him who first lit upon it at least is the
result of reflection, the knowledge which a man
has of any subject will may naturally enough be
received as an indication of the degree of reflection
he has bestow'd upon it. But upon
the principle of utility, the mischievousness of
the an offence which is what the principle of
utility [founds its judgments on] looks to, is
not determined solely by the depravity of the
disposition. It depends immediately upon the
sufferings of the persons who are affected by
the offence taking into the account those to
whom the alarm & and the of the offence danger of other
similar offences may accrue as well as the actual
pain occasioned by the individual offence:
and in the constitution composition of the mischief as thus estimated
the depravity of the offender's disposition is but an
aggravating and not an essential circumstance.
Princ. of Legisl. Introd.
ch. xii. [Consequences] par. 35.
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