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Interest in 2 manners <add>ways</add> — | Interest in 2 manners <add>ways</add> — either | ||
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a time <add>once/add> , "if you will , I<hi rend='underline'> wil</hi>l — (& from <gap/> | |||
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"we all <hi rend='underline'>will"</hi>) that is , if an <unclear>engagemen</unclear><!-- engagement ? (word unfinished) --> | |||
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be taken : The Interest have<!-- or, 'here' --> <gap/> , from <unclear>th</unclear><!-- 'the' (word unfinished) --> | |||
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Discredit <add>dishonour</add> of violating an engagement . | |||
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<p><!-- indented -->2<hi rend='superscript'>d</hi> When kone or more having power so | |||
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to do , say to <del>all its own</del> <add><del>another</del></add> them — "you all | |||
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<hi rend='underline'>shall"</hi> that is , if a Law be made | |||
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<p><!-- indented -->The Interest here arises from the <sic>michief</sic><!-- 'mischief ? (word partly omitted after the 'mi' at the end of the line, prior to it continuing on the line below 'chief' --> of suffering the Punishment which | |||
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10-Feb-2012: under construction by Diane Folan. Please do not amend.
5. 6
CERTAINTY Interest — individual x general.
to an acknowledged Interest or that the Nation
in question is blind to what is it's Interest.
Meanwhile neither of these suppositions shall
be true — It shall not be like - The nation shall not be blind ;
much less is it ever true that human nature acts in default of or in contradiction <add>opposition to</add>
its' impelling motives —
The nation shall have an a general interest
in the doing of the thing in question;
& shall know it: (that is, the greater part in it of those who think , shall know ) that
if the conduct in question were observed by
all at once , a clear benefit would result to
all, or at least to many — Yet is it is not
observed — for why ? because on the one-hand from any one's
observing it alone, or in the company of a few on the one hand no such
benefit would accrue , on the other from on his
not observing it , no such detriment of itself accrues
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or [is made] to accrue [is made] — & because those
to whom it appertains are not agreed how to
go about so to order it , or that a correspond.
benefit or detriment as the case demands
shall accrue to each separate individual ,
according & to the share he shall have taken & (
upon his taking it) in the observing or
not observing it of such conduct.
In their Projects
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How - general Interest is converted in a particular individual Interest.
A general Interest is converted into an individual
Interest in 2 manners ways — either
1st When many men say to one another at
a time once/add> , "if you will , I will — (& from
"we all will") that is , if an engagemen
be taken : The Interest have , from th
Discredit <add>dishonour of violating an engagement .
2d When kone or more having power so
to do , say to all its own another them — "you all
shall" that is , if a Law be made
The Interest here arises from the michief of suffering the Punishment which
is denounced by that Law.
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