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<note>27c</note> | |||
<p>In the application of legislation to the purposes of life<lb/> | |||
the legislator has only the choice of evils. There can be<lb/> | |||
no government without <sic>co-ercion</sic> - no coercion without suffering -<lb/> | |||
& separately considered that coercion must be an evil. The<lb/> | |||
<add>punitory</add> functions of government consist in the application of that<lb/> | |||
evil to the individual misdoers, - for the purpose of obtaining<lb/> | |||
in the interests of the community an exemption from<lb/> | |||
greater evils - or a production of pleasures of greater value<lb/> | |||
that the sufferings <del><gap/></del> <unclear>created</unclear> by its coercive interposition<lb/></p> | |||
It is thus that the | |||
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27c
In the application of legislation to the purposes of life
the legislator has only the choice of evils. There can be
no government without co-ercion - no coercion without suffering -
& separately considered that coercion must be an evil. The
punitory functions of government consist in the application of that
evil to the individual misdoers, - for the purpose of obtaining
in the interests of the community an exemption from
greater evils - or a production of pleasures of greater value
that the sufferings created by its coercive interposition
It is thus that the
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sir john bowring |
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