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<p>"a business of much national expediency" can never<lb/> | |||
"a business of much national expediency" can never | be inconsistent with, in short can scarcely but originate<lb/> | ||
be inconsistent with, in short can scarcely but originate from, "a disposition to promote novelties:" | from, "a disposition to promote novelties:"<lb/> | ||
"a sense of public duty", (if the effect of such a sense be the "wish to facilitate | "a sense of public duty", (if the effect of such<lb/> | ||
a sense be the "wish to facilitate businesses of much<lb/> | |||
"national expediency") can not but lead a man to<lb/> "promote" and even to "propose" novelties.</p> | |||
<p>If indeed by "novelties" he mean such novelties<lb/> | |||
only as are inexpedient, the import will be<lb/> | |||
explicit enough it is true, but such as it were hardly<lb/> | |||
worth expressing. The import will be, that the<lb/> | |||
matter has no disposition to promote <del><gap/></del> <add>measures</add> he<lb/> | |||
looks upon as inexpedient. But the wish of not<lb/> | |||
being thought to entertain such a disposition (which<lb/> | |||
is all that the passage is calculated to express) is a<lb/> | |||
wish which a man may at all times save himself<lb/> | |||
the trouble of expressing: the public being altogether<lb/> | |||
in the habit of giving <del>every man (of the</del> <add>any man whatsoever</add><lb/> | |||
<del>most ordinary understanding) <add>who is</add> in his <gap/> condition<lb/> | |||
for its</del> credit for it.</p> | |||
<p><hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> <note><hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> All new measures, that<lb/> | |||
is all measures whatsoever<lb/> | |||
at the core of<lb/> | |||
their proposal, expedient<lb/> | |||
or inexpedient, have<lb/> | |||
thus much in common,<lb/> | |||
that they are novel. To<lb/> | |||
reprobate any measure<lb/> | |||
then, not because it is<lb/> | |||
inexpedient, but because<lb/> | |||
it is novel, is<lb/> | |||
to combat it with an<lb/> | |||
argument which applies <lb/> | |||
not with any greater<lb/> | |||
force against the<lb/> | |||
worst measures, than <lb/> | |||
against the best.</note></p> | |||
<p>The Author goes on a little farther in the<lb/> | |||
same strain. He observes in the way of concession<hi rend="superscript">†</hi> <note><hi rend="superscript">†</hi> <del>its</del> Preface p.5.</note><lb/> | |||
that "he has found it indeed possible to point<lb/> | |||
"out many Laws, which seem to reflect no lustre<lb/> | |||
"either on the humanity or the wisdom of our<lb/> | |||
"legislation, and in their effect are prejudicial to<lb/> | |||
"the whole conduct of our police" — But he rejoins,<lb/> | |||
<add>and</add></p> | |||
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"a business of much national expediency" can never
be inconsistent with, in short can scarcely but originate
from, "a disposition to promote novelties:"
"a sense of public duty", (if the effect of such
a sense be the "wish to facilitate businesses of much
"national expediency") can not but lead a man to
"promote" and even to "propose" novelties.
If indeed by "novelties" he mean such novelties
only as are inexpedient, the import will be
explicit enough it is true, but such as it were hardly
worth expressing. The import will be, that the
matter has no disposition to promote measures he
looks upon as inexpedient. But the wish of not
being thought to entertain such a disposition (which
is all that the passage is calculated to express) is a
wish which a man may at all times save himself
the trouble of expressing: the public being altogether
in the habit of giving every man (of the any man whatsoever
most ordinary understanding) who is in his condition
for its credit for it.
⊞ ⊞ All new measures, that
is all measures whatsoever
at the core of
their proposal, expedient
or inexpedient, have
thus much in common,
that they are novel. To
reprobate any measure
then, not because it is
inexpedient, but because
it is novel, is
to combat it with an
argument which applies
not with any greater
force against the
worst measures, than
against the best.
The Author goes on a little farther in the
same strain. He observes in the way of concession† † its Preface p.5.
that "he has found it indeed possible to point
"out many Laws, which seem to reflect no lustre
"either on the humanity or the wisdom of our
"legislation, and in their effect are prejudicial to
"the whole conduct of our police" — But he rejoins,
and
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hard-labour bill preface |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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c. hamilton |
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