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the other it's original.
As to the proportion of an interest, to act
towards the execution of the Law, viz: it's proportion
(Adequate
Interest( or
(Inadequate
to the trouble & other inconvenience of acting, it
is may be either 1st Adequate; or 2dly Inadequate.
that is or Rather we ought here to say adequate or inadequate, not barely to
that trouble & inconvenience: but to the effect
of producing action.
I say, not barely to the trouble & inconvenience,
for the result of such adequacy would still
be [no more than] inaction: As if the trouble & the inconvenience [+] [+] in the 1st place the trouble of
acting in the manner requisite be worth
£5, and the interest in this case is plainly
inadequate, as well to the purpose of producing
action as to the trouble and inconvenience
of acting. If in the next place, the trouble trouble
& inconvenience be worth 5£ as it was before,
and the interest also be worth £5. viz. 2£ more than what it was before:
viz: It is then adequate to the trouble &
inconvenience: but it is not yet adequate to
the purpose of producing action: something
farther is yet wanting on the side of interest,
to overcome that viz inertia <add>which is as natural to the
human mind as it is to matter: 5£'s worth
of interest advantage will no more produce action against
5£'s worth of trouble, than 5£ weight
in one scale will make cause 5 £'s weight in
another scale of equal length to Lick the
beam.
Even these speculations, however at first glance
they may seem are not too refined: because
they are capable of application, to the furtherance of justice, in every day's
practise.
(Natural
Interest( or
Factitious</note>
Lastly, interest as to it's original, Interest may be said to be is
either natural or factitious. Natural, when
it arises from the constitution of things, independently
of any special provision of the Law:
Factitious when it accrues by virtue of such
special provisions the obvious practical inference
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But to what purpose will it perhaps be said, perhaps all
these words? why enter into a detail of particulars<lb?> every one so obvious? who did not know
all this already? I know not if there be who there may
may an</del. be who knew it not already: but this
I know that many have acted as if they knew did not
it not <add>know it. the Legislature have never acted <lb?> in two years sessions together, perhaps in the wto Statutes<lb?> together, as if they knew it did. It was this very
thing that engaged me to enter into the discussion. For [+] [+] it is a
of whihc it may be of
use to those who are not
accustomed to trace watch the
progress of the understanding
to be forewarned approved
It seems to me so,lb/> plain & obvious, that
I cannot suppose any<lb?> one can feel himself
as if he had learnt and thing by
it principles are not first invented & then accommodated to facts, but are suggested by the review of &
facts & the contemplation comparison of facts & their relations.
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