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<note>Toleration of<lb/>concubinage &<lb/>prostitution<lb/>One prejudice becomes<lb/>another prejudice</note> | |||
In England concubinage and prostitution<lb/>are tolerated just as theft and smuggling are<lb/>tolerated; not with intention <add>in wisdom</add> but through <add>from</add> impotence.<lb/><del>What they don't like men can't prevail<lb/>upon themselves to allow, though though conscious that<lb/>nothing is to be done by prohibition. Of all<lb/>political mischiefs there are none to which men<lb/>are more insensible than <add>to</add> then which result<lb/>from the contempt that falls upon <add>grows upon</add> laws that<lb/>can not be executed at all, and the abuses<lb/>that grow out of those which can not be executed<lb/>to any purpose.</del> In a country<lb/>in which the people are afraid to allow <add>endure</add> and<lb/>the government to assume the <add>little</add> vigour [which is]<lb/>[necessary to suppress] <add>requisite for suppressing</add> crimes by which all men<lb/>suffer, one may imagine [whether it be practicable <add>possible</add><lb/>to assume that] which would be necessary<lb/>to suppress irregularities in which all parties<lb/>find their account. <note>What possibility <lb/>there is of their assuming<lb/>the much greater<lb/>degree of vigour<lb/><lb/></note>Yet <del>what they don't</del> though<lb/>conscious that by prohibition nothing is to be done,<lb/>what they don't approve of <add>like</add> , men can not <note> without extreme <lb/><lb/>reluctance <del>prevail</del><lb/></note> prevail<lb/>upon themselves to allow. They must leave the <add>give themselves</add><lb/>appearance of doing something thought <add>consicious that</add>> what they do<lb/>amounts to nothing or to worse. Their character<lb/><note>they</note><pb/> | |||
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Indirect Legislation
Satisfying
Toleration of
concubinage &
prostitution
One prejudice becomes
another prejudice
In England concubinage and prostitution
are tolerated just as theft and smuggling are
tolerated; not with intention in wisdom but through from impotence.
What they don't like men can't prevail
upon themselves to allow, though though conscious that
nothing is to be done by prohibition. Of all
political mischiefs there are none to which men
are more insensible than to then which result
from the contempt that falls upon grows upon laws that
can not be executed at all, and the abuses
that grow out of those which can not be executed
to any purpose. In a country
in which the people are afraid to allow endure and
the government to assume the little vigour [which is]
[necessary to suppress] requisite for suppressing crimes by which all men
suffer, one may imagine [whether it be practicable possible
to assume that] which would be necessary
to suppress irregularities in which all parties
find their account. What possibility
there is of their assuming
the much greater
degree of vigour
Yet what they don't though
conscious that by prohibition nothing is to be done,
what they don't approve of like , men can not without extreme
reluctance prevail
prevail
upon themselves to allow. They must leave the give themselves
appearance of doing something thought consicious that> what they do
amounts to nothing or to worse. Their character
they
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