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<head>Indirect Legislation</head> | |||
<note>§§ <hi rend="superscript">4</hi> Non-seducing</note> | |||
<add>proves</add> is that is one of the cases in which the people<lb/>being liable to go wrong, it should be the care of government<lb/>to instruct them and set them right.<lb/>In this view the following are the tasks which the<lb/>legislator should perform. Acknowledging <add>Establishing Recognizing</add> the truth<lb/>of the rule in general, he should give a list of the exeptions.<lb/>He should moreover shew the reason which<lb/>there is for the exceptions as well as for the rule. It<lb/>would then appear, that they both depended on the same<lb/>principle, that of utility; that there was as much reason<lb/>for this one aas for the others: and the reasons in favour<lb/>of the exceptions <add>did but confirm the sacredness of the rule</add> [even so many reasons why the rule<lb/>should be sacred] [in the cases not excepted] in all<lb/><add>other</add> cases that did not fall within them<lb/> | |||
<note>Objection in point<lb/>of benevolence answered</note> | |||
As to benevolence, <del>the</del> <add>any</add> objections <del>that are made</del> on<lb/><lb/>that score can proceed, as hath been observed only<lb/>from inattention. It is contrary to the dictates of benevolence:<lb/>true: but to that benevolence only, which<lb/>is of the most comfined pattern <add>acts upon the narrowest scale</add> : to the dictates of enlarged<lb/>benevolence it is conformable. <add>The benevolence to which</add> It is repugnant to the<lb/>dictates of that benevolence <add>is that</add> which is confined <del>to an<lb/>individual:</del> to a minute <add>& almost imperceptible</add> part of the society; to an<lb/>individual: it is conformable to the dictates of that<lb/>benevolence which embraces the interests <add>welfare happiness</add> of the whole.<lb/>Here as in so many <add>other </add> cases the forces <add>force</add> of the benevolent<lb/>affection are <add>is</add> divided within themselves <add>itself</add> : and the measure<lb/>objected to takes part with the majority. If <lb/><note>this</note><pb/> | |||
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Indirect Legislation
§§ 4 Non-seducing
proves is that is one of the cases in which the people
being liable to go wrong, it should be the care of government
to instruct them and set them right.
In this view the following are the tasks which the
legislator should perform. Acknowledging Establishing Recognizing the truth
of the rule in general, he should give a list of the exeptions.
He should moreover shew the reason which
there is for the exceptions as well as for the rule. It
would then appear, that they both depended on the same
principle, that of utility; that there was as much reason
for this one aas for the others: and the reasons in favour
of the exceptions did but confirm the sacredness of the rule [even so many reasons why the rule
should be sacred] [in the cases not excepted] in all
other cases that did not fall within them
Objection in point
of benevolence answered
As to benevolence, the any objections that are made on
that score can proceed, as hath been observed only
from inattention. It is contrary to the dictates of benevolence:
true: but to that benevolence only, which
is of the most comfined pattern acts upon the narrowest scale : to the dictates of enlarged
benevolence it is conformable. The benevolence to which It is repugnant to the
dictates of that benevolence is that which is confined to an
individual: to a minute & almost imperceptible part of the society; to an
individual: it is conformable to the dictates of that
benevolence which embraces the interests welfare happiness of the whole.
Here as in so many other cases the forces force of the benevolent
affection are is divided within themselves itself : and the measure
objected to takes part with the majority. If
this
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