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<head>[<del>Limits</del>] of [Transcendental Legislation]</head> | |||
<note>Transcendental <lb/>Legislation</note> | |||
In several departments of science, there<lb/>are branches which have been cultivated at a<lb/>later period than the rest, having <del>required</del> <add>been the result of</add> a longer<lb/>series of observations, a deeper train of reflections<lb/><del>and</del> a more strenuous exertion <add>and a man's more arduous flight</add> of inventive genius, <lb/><note>a more comprehensive reach<lb/></note> <del>there</del> have been dignified by the name <add>epithet</add> of<lb/><hi rend="underline">transcendental</hi> . Let mathematics and chemistry<lb/>serve for examples. The same distinction might<lb/>perhaps not inappositely be applied to <add>the art of</add> legislation.<lb/><note>There is a <del>species</del> of <add><gap/> such or</add><lb/>sort of <add>such an</add> act which<lb/>has a manifest tendency<lb/>to produce such<lb/>and such a mischief<lb/>how is it to be prevented? —<lb/>The answer<lb/>that every body<lb/>is ready, and every<lb/>body however undiscerning<lb/>is able to give<lb/>is couched in these<lb/>two words, forbid it,<lb/>punish it.<lb/></note> One method of proceeding in the view <add>busines</add><lb/>of combating offences being pitched <add>fixed</add> upon as the<lb/>most obvious, every other method <add>beside and therefore beoynd this</add> might be included<lb/>under <add>distinguished from it by</add> the appellation of transcental.<lb/>Two such branches seem in fact to be sufficiently <add> not</add><lb/><add>ill</add> distinguished in the ideas of the multitude <add>conceptions of those who</add><lb/>of pulitical speculators <add>turn their thought to legislation</add> : <note><add><del>perfectly</del></add> in its <add>design of its</add></note> whole progress<lb/> <add>in all its operations</add><lb/>obvious to observation<lb/>and reduced long ago<lb/>to some sort of system: the</note> <note>the other shewing itself only here and there in detached<lb/>fragments the whole assemblage no one <gap/>ever <add>hitherto</add> to have thought of comparing<lb/>under any <add><del>regular</del> extensive &</add> systematic view, much less under any exhaustive method: the one <lb/></note>one tolerated <add>borne with</add><lb/>as necessary, but not looked upon with any degree<lb/>of complacency: the other the object of<lb/>the partial preference and fond attachment<lb/>of the bulk of speculators, always disposed to think<lb/> <note>the</note> <pb/> | |||
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[Limits] of [Transcendental Legislation]
Transcendental
Legislation
In several departments of science, there
are branches which have been cultivated at a
later period than the rest, having required been the result of a longer
series of observations, a deeper train of reflections
and a more strenuous exertion and a man's more arduous flight of inventive genius,
a more comprehensive reach
there have been dignified by the name epithet of
transcendental . Let mathematics and chemistry
serve for examples. The same distinction might
perhaps not inappositely be applied to the art of legislation.
There is a species of such or
sort of such an act which
has a manifest tendency
to produce such
and such a mischief
how is it to be prevented? —
The answer
that every body
is ready, and every
body however undiscerning
is able to give
is couched in these
two words, forbid it,
punish it.
One method of proceeding in the view busines
of combating offences being pitched fixed upon as the
most obvious, every other method beside and therefore beoynd this might be included
under distinguished from it by the appellation of transcental.
Two such branches seem in fact to be sufficiently not
ill distinguished in the ideas of the multitude conceptions of those who
of pulitical speculators turn their thought to legislation : perfectly in its design of its whole progress
in all its operations
obvious to observation
and reduced long ago
to some sort of system: the</note> the other shewing itself only here and there in detached
fragments the whole assemblage no one ever hitherto to have thought of comparing
under any regular extensive & systematic view, much less under any exhaustive method: the one
one tolerated borne with
as necessary, but not looked upon with any degree
of complacency: the other the object of
the partial preference and fond attachment
of the bulk of speculators, always disposed to think
the
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