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Affording a practical test as well as index of the
utility of each any new measure to which it may
be thought fit to apply it, another effect of the Calendar of Delinquency in will be , the check
operating as a check to crude and half considered hasty perfects in the line of political improvement,of supposed improvement
as the practice of keeping regular books
operates as a check to hastysimilar enterprises in the line of private industry private trade
By holding up to view the idea of profit and loss
in perpetual conjunction, by the continual
calls it gives to the Statesman to look at both
sides of the accounts. it apposes a powerful checkcorrective
to these half considered prospectspartial views in which profit
alone is taken account of, and loss turned aside
from, or not worthy of a thought as if it were
not worth thinking of. Abstractedly considered, there
it is easy enought to devise measures that no one shape or other would be serviciable in the way of Police. But will the advantage in each case afford sufficient payment for the vexation and the expence? On that question depends the eligibility of each measure: and to that question it is only from the Calendar of Delinquency that a substantial and well perfectly satisfactory answer can be dedueced.
act the question - shall a National Watch
or Mariehanpic for the guarding of the Roads all
over the Country be instituted?- serve as an example.
Providing fromupon the ground theory and analogy, without
attending to figures, - if a Parish Watch be necessary
so should a City or Metropolitan watch.- and if
a City or Metropolitan watch, so should a National.
But a National Watch or Mariehanpic
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