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Indirect Legislation
§ 4 Religion
is apt to result to the community from this state of
things let history declare. By and by the temporal
magistrate commands a man to do a thing: which the
religious no spiritual magistrate commands him not
to do it: if he does it, he is punished by the one: if
he does it not, he is punished by the other. The
subject has then only this alternative:
fear of the prosecution or fear of damnation: the fear
of the sword or the fear of eternal fire.
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jeremy bentham |
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