JB/087/012/003

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C. 3.

Of Preventive Institutions.

"of you and what you will be able to perform, if you understand
"your business art in the degree in which you we expect you might
"and ought to understand it, is to teach us how to prevent
"these propensities from ever being formed — The business is to
"crop nip them in the bud, not to let them stay till they have
"born fruit — Do this or You do nothing." — Such is the task which the well-meant but inconsiderate zeal of philanthrophists would impose upon the reforming legislator.
Use of undeceiving

them

In point of fact however Nature, I fear, is not so rich in her resources nor so lavish in her favours as these sanguine philanthropists seem to imagine. If so, since the keeping ourselves bent upon grasping at what is beyond our reach serves only to make us neglect what is before our eyes, it may be of use if men can be taught to repress these hankerings after unattainable perfection: they may then be induced to confine their views and expectations to the adoption and improvement of such plain and homely expedients as the nature of men and things furnishes for the approaching as near as may be to the accomplishment of such commendable views.
They may learn to be
more indulgent in their
judgements of they pass on the conduct
of those who act at
the helm of state.

Identifier: | JB/087/012/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	012	Info in main headings field	of preventive institutions
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown] propatria [britannia with lion motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27537
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