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But this position <add>these notions</add> I trust will be found as erroneous as<lb/>it is <add>uncomfortable</add> The greatest crimes are those, to the commission <lb/>of which the | But this position <add>these notions</add> I trust will be found as erroneous as<lb/>it is <add>uncomfortable</add> The greatest crimes are those, to the commission <lb/>of which the least quantity of knowledge is required:<lb/>not more than is sure to be possessed by the<lb/>most ignorant individual of the most <sic>unletter'd</sic><lb/>age. Inundation is a worse crime than incendiarism:<lb/>incendiarism than murder, in prosecution<lb/>of robbery: <del>robbe</del> murder in prosecution of robbery<lb/>than robbery alone: robbery than theft: and even<lb/>between theft and sharping what little difference<lb/>there may be in point of mischievousness<lb/>is in favour of the latter. This, lest it should not<lb/>be sufficiently apparent <add>to every eye be apparent</add> at first sight, will hereafter<lb/>be made appear at large. <note>See Princ. of Legisl.<lb/>B.1<lb/></note> And how made appear?<lb/>Not by rhetoric and declamation: not by the seduction<lb/>of the passions and the abuse of words: but by<lb/>a plain arithmetical process: by a sober inventory<lb/>of the <hi rend="underline">items</hi> of mischief on each side: by a com-<lb/><note>-parison</note><pb/> | ||
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5
Indirect Legislation
Knowledge
men are not the
worse for civilization
But this position these notions I trust will be found as erroneous as
it is uncomfortable The greatest crimes are those, to the commission
of which the least quantity of knowledge is required:
not more than is sure to be possessed by the
most ignorant individual of the most unletter'd
age. Inundation is a worse crime than incendiarism:
incendiarism than murder, in prosecution
of robbery: robbe murder in prosecution of robbery
than robbery alone: robbery than theft: and even
between theft and sharping what little difference
there may be in point of mischievousness
is in favour of the latter. This, lest it should not
be sufficiently apparent to every eye be apparent at first sight, will hereafter
be made appear at large. See Princ. of Legisl.
B.1
And how made appear?
Not by rhetoric and declamation: not by the seduction
of the passions and the abuse of words: but by
a plain arithmetical process: by a sober inventory
of the items of mischief on each side: by a com-
-parison
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