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<p><add>who</add> has been beaten or <del>vilified</del> <add>defamed</add> or <sic>plunder'd</sic> has<lb/><sic>compleat</sic> amends made him, the act of beating,<lb/><del>vilif</del> defaming or plundering, becomes, so far at least<lb/>as his interests only are concerned, a matter of indifference.<lb/> Even murder and incendiarism would become<lb/>innocent <add>matters of indifference,</add> could men be raised from the<lb/>dead, and <add>if it</add> could it be so contrived that fire should<lb/>not be productive of any mischief. [Now] it is not<lb/><add>indeed</add> in the legislator's power to raise men from the dead:<lb/>but it may be in his power to <del>give</del> make some<lb/>sort of amends to such <del>living persons</del> persons still<lb/>living as have been sufferers by their death. It is<lb/>not in the <del>po</del> legislator's power to prevent fire from<lb/>doing mischief: but the mischief which fire in<lb/>any case happens to be productive of it is in his<lb/>power to lessen <add><del>in s</del> | <p><add>who</add> has been beaten or <del>vilified</del> <add>defamed</add> or <sic>plunder'd</sic> has<lb/><sic>compleat</sic> amends made him, the act of beating,<lb/><del>vilif</del> defaming or plundering, becomes, so far at least<lb/>as his interests only are concerned, a matter of indifference.<lb/> Even murder and incendiarism would become<lb/>innocent <add>matters of indifference,</add> could men be raised from the<lb/>dead, and <add>if it</add> could it be so contrived that fire should<lb/>not be productive of any mischief. [Now] it is not<lb/><add>indeed</add> in the legislator's power to raise men from the dead:<lb/>but it may be in his power to <del>give</del> make some<lb/>sort of amends to such <del>living persons</del> persons still<lb/>living as have been sufferers by their death. It is<lb/>not in the <del>po</del> legislator's power to prevent fire from<lb/>doing mischief: but the mischief which fire in<lb/>any case happens to be productive of it is in his<lb/>power to lessen <add><del>in s</del> | ||
</add> <note>by some one or other<lb/> of the methods <lb/>we shall proceed to<lb/> exhibit<del>ed</del>.<lb/></note> to wit by sharing it: and <del>hence<lb/>the</del> by causing the loss to fall upon those who are<lb/>more able <del>in preference to</del> instead of those who<lb/>are <del>more</del> less able to endure it: and hence the<lb/>usefulness of offices of insurance.<lb/></p><p>Mischief, of what nature so ever it be, and<lb/>from what cause soever it arise <del>is</del> <add>must</add> either <add>be</add> <hi rend="underline">pecuniary</hi><lb/>or <hi rend="underline">not | </add> <note>by some one or other<lb/> of the methods <lb/>we shall proceed to<lb/> exhibit<del>ed</del>.<lb/></note> to wit by sharing it: and <del>hence<lb/>the</del> by causing the loss to fall upon those who are<lb/>more able <del>in preference to</del> instead of those who<lb/>are <del>more</del> less able to endure it: and hence the<lb/>usefulness of offices of insurance.<lb/></p><p>Mischief, of what nature so ever it be, and<lb/>from what cause soever it arise <del>is</del> <add>must</add> either <add>be</add> <hi rend="underline">pecuniary</hi><lb/>or <hi rend="underline">not pecuniary</hi>. In the first case it is always<lb/>susceptible of an amends of the same kind as the suffering, <lb/>or as it may termed, of amends that is ho-<lb/> <note>-mogeneous.</note></p> | ||
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Indirect Legislation
Mischief
who has been beaten or vilified defamed or plunder'd has
compleat amends made him, the act of beating,
vilif defaming or plundering, becomes, so far at least
as his interests only are concerned, a matter of indifference.
Even murder and incendiarism would become
innocent matters of indifference, could men be raised from the
dead, and if it could it be so contrived that fire should
not be productive of any mischief. [Now] it is not
indeed in the legislator's power to raise men from the dead:
but it may be in his power to give make some
sort of amends to such living persons persons still
living as have been sufferers by their death. It is
not in the po legislator's power to prevent fire from
doing mischief: but the mischief which fire in
any case happens to be productive of it is in his
power to lessen in s
by some one or other
of the methods
we shall proceed to
exhibited.
to wit by sharing it: and hence
the by causing the loss to fall upon those who are
more able in preference to instead of those who
are more less able to endure it: and hence the
usefulness of offices of insurance.
Mischief, of what nature so ever it be, and
from what cause soever it arise is must either be pecuniary
or not pecuniary. In the first case it is always
susceptible of an amends of the same kind as the suffering,
or as it may termed, of amends that is ho-
-mogeneous.
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