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Indirect Legislation

Religion

of [civil] government. Whatever may be the cause it
seems as if with respect in the case of the religious sanction the dependency connection there
is between the magnitude of it's force and rectitude of it's direction was were
the reverse of what it is with regard in the case
of the moral. As to the moral sanction it seems
that the greater the force of it is in any community
the nearer have the body of it's dictates of it approached
to a coincidence with the dictates of utility: as to
the religious sanction one would be apt to think that
the greater the force of it has been in any
country the further have the body of it's dictates
been from coinciding with the dictates of that principle
just mentioned. Observe the moral sanction, we find it mending
in it's direction in proportion as it augments in
force. Examine the religious we find the inefficacy
of it when applied to the purposes of promoting
promoting political good or preventing political
mischief the standing topic of lamentation even
among those who have the strongest interest to make in making
the most of its utility. Feeble Impotent when [employ'd] solicited
to do good it is powerful only to do evil. It is
the moral sanction that activates the Codruses, the
the Reguluses the Russels and the Sidneys: it was
the religious sanction that activated render'd Philip
the

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Identifier: | JB/087/025/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	12-13
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	025	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22 / f23 / f24
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27550
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