Arguments Respecting Insolvency: Dedicated to the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onslow, Esq., Speaker of the House of Commons (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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A N K IN D, confidered as focial Beings, are under fome Necefiity Of uling the belt Means in their Power for fupporting each Other againfl: the Frowns of adverfe Fortune: Since no Man is fore, that what 18 his Neighbour's Fate to Day may not be his own To-morrow, Selfi Love, and a Regard to what may happen in the Future, {hould neceliarily induce him fo to exprefs his Humanity in the Prefent, as that, when it comes to be his own Cafe, he may be jui'cly intitled to equal Bencficence from the tell of his Fellow Creatures. When Individuals, through a Courfe of Cufioms, Prejudices, and wrong Reafonings B areare gradually Odev1at1ng from this great Point, fo effential to the Peace, and Welfare of the Community, it naturally falls to the Lot of the Legiflature to interpofe their Power, and to do that by the Force of their Authority, which Men will not do Of their own Accord: It feemmo as much to conicide with the Nature and tdinterefl: of thofe in Power, that Men ihould not ruin or defiroy one another by the mere Letter of the Law, or becaufe they can do 1t as that they may not be permitted to out each other's Throats. This being what keeps the Balance even between the Governors and Governed.

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