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<p>old Law, which by perpetual <add>certain</add> experience has been <hi rend='superscript'>+</hi> <note>+ found to produce a very signal and considerable degree of misery, and prevent (as far as such a proposition <add>negation</add> can possibly be proved) little or may I at length venture to say none —</note>found <add>proved</add><lb/> | |||
ineffectual — the Question is not whether, having a<lb/> | |||
power to put a stop to a mischief, we shall put a<lb/> | |||
stop to it or no? but <add>having visibly & experimentally no such power</add> whether having exhausted against<lb/> | |||
it the strongest <add>most powerful forcible</add> of our expedients, we shall persist<lb/> | |||
in combating it at a loss — Whether because a<lb/> | |||
considerable quantity of misery <add>useless</add> for a long time has been<lb/> | |||
regularly produced we shall continue <sic>it's</sic> production,<lb/> | |||
having it in our power to make it care? we might<lb/> | |||
almost <del>call</del> venture here to call in the dangerous assistance<lb/> | |||
of the Poet or the <gap/>, to display the<lb/> | |||
cruelty of such a <del>conduct.</del> <add>resolution.</add></p> | |||
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old Law, which by perpetual certain experience has been + + found to produce a very signal and considerable degree of misery, and prevent (as far as such a proposition negation can possibly be proved) little or may I at length venture to say none —found proved
ineffectual — the Question is not whether, having a
power to put a stop to a mischief, we shall put a
stop to it or no? but having visibly & experimentally no such power whether having exhausted against
it the strongest most powerful forcible of our expedients, we shall persist
in combating it at a loss — Whether because a
considerable quantity of misery useless for a long time has been
regularly produced we shall continue it's production,
having it in our power to make it care? we might
almost call venture here to call in the dangerous assistance
of the Poet or the , to display the
cruelty of such a conduct. resolution.
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legislation |
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219 |
homicide - of infants |
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002 |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]] |
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