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<head>Indirect Legislation § 5</head> | |||
<note>Benevolence</note> | |||
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<note>To rectify its bias<lb/> or direction strew <lb/>the pre-eminence <lb/>of enlarged benevolence <lb/>ever confined.<lb/></note> | |||
Next with regard to the measures to be taken<lb/>for keeing the force of this principle in a right<lb/>direction. The main point <add>object</add> here is to keep the<lb/>sentiment if one may so say to a proper degree<lb/>of expansion <add>enlargement</add>. I prefer <add>said Fenelon <hi rend="superscript">+</hi> <note>+</note> <!-- no text in the marginal note here --> </add> my family to myself<lb/>my friends to my family, and my country to<lb/>my friends. [This is the text which <add>on the present occasion</add> the legislator<lb/>on the present occasion will have to preach<lb/>upon.] Oftentimes when men err in the direction<lb/>given to their benevolence, the fault lies not so<lb/>much in their affections as in their <unclear>understanding</unclear><lb/>[[It is for <add>Let the Let it be the business of</add>] the legislator then [to set them right. Let<lb/>then him shew them where [how easily it may happen<lb/>that] <gap/> ill applied counteracts it's own<lb/>purposes. Let them shew then for example what<lb/>mischief is done by making charity the pay of idleness<lb/>instead of the price of industry: let him<lb/>shew them <note>that, unless the <del><gap/></del><lb/>there be tyranny in the<lb/>laws it is<lb/></note> what cruelty it is ever to pardon<lb/>without a <gap/> motive <note>See Ch [Cases unmeet ]</note> let him shew them<lb/>how <del>cor</del> sure a sign it is that either the laws<lb/>are bad, or the people [<del>ill-instructed</del> <add>ill advised</add>] when infamy<lb/>is the portion of the informer: Let him<lb/> <note>inform</note><lb/><pb/> | |||
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Indirect Legislation § 5
Benevolence
6
To rectify its bias
or direction strew
the pre-eminence
of enlarged benevolence
ever confined.
Next with regard to the measures to be taken
for keeing the force of this principle in a right
direction. The main point object here is to keep the
sentiment if one may so say to a proper degree
of expansion enlargement. I prefer said Fenelon + + my family to myself
my friends to my family, and my country to
my friends. [This is the text which on the present occasion the legislator
on the present occasion will have to preach
upon.] Oftentimes when men err in the direction
given to their benevolence, the fault lies not so
much in their affections as in their understanding
[[It is for Let the Let it be the business of] the legislator then [to set them right. Let
then him shew them where [how easily it may happen
that] ill applied counteracts it's own
purposes. Let them shew then for example what
mischief is done by making charity the pay of idleness
instead of the price of industry: let him
shew them that, unless the
there be tyranny in the
laws it is
what cruelty it is ever to pardon
without a motive See Ch [Cases unmeet ] let him shew them
how cor sure a sign it is that either the laws
are bad, or the people [ill-instructed ill advised] when infamy
is the portion of the informer: Let him
inform
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