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C. 4. Of Preventive Institutions.

impracticable. If it produces not satisfaction, at any rate
it produces resignation. It prevents men from wasting their wishes
and their endeavours [talents]
in the search fruitless pursuit of unattainable
objects, and
leaves them free to
pursue with better
success such as are
attainable.

If there be any reason for wishing to prevent a crime it
is only on account of the calamities, the physical evils which
such crime has a tendency to produce. Accordingly, Although in any case
there should be no means of preventing the offence itself the purpose
will [therefore] be equally well answered should the several
calamities misfortunes be prevented which it is the nature of
those offences respectively to produce. Take away the mischiefs,
the calamities misfortunes , and you take away every reason which a legislator
can have for wishing to prevent the crimes that
are the causes of them. It will be contributing in a proportionable
degree to the same end, if expedients can be found
out for blunting the edge of those calamities misfortunes .

The view of the motives
&c will be sufficent to suggest
to us the limits
within which
the possible institutions & the
possible efficacy
of those institutions
will be circumscribed

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Identifier: | JB/087/012/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	012	Info in main headings field	of preventive institutions
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown] propatria [britannia with lion motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27537
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