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Forfeiture of Reputation.
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must neceſsarily be limited. To warrant the inference some appearance of connection, however superficial, there must be between the two offences. But any little connection however slight is ordinarily sufficient. In such a case men in general are not apt to be very difficult with regard to the evidence. The vanity of being thought ingenious, the pride of sitting in judgment and condemning, the hope of carving a certain reputation on the of virtue and at any rate The love of novelty and paradox and the propensity to exaggeration especially on the unfavourable side, second the aim of the Legislator.
So much for the ways in which the political magistrate may exert an influence over the moral sanction by the bare exercise of his legislative powers: we now come to the instances in which he requires the aſsistance of the executive.
Of all the modes of proceeding measures expedients that may be claſsed under this head the least severe is that of publication, the making public the fact of the offence accompanied with a designation of the offender. [It isThe effect of such an expedient is principally to add a point of intensity.] It is principally in point of extent that a measure of this sort tends to add to the natural
Identification of the offender with the which the offender had in it
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