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† There is a mistake in an argument on this head in an excellent book, Bishop Butler's Analogy. „Ill-desert, or meriting punishment, must be another notion than this that the sufferings of such tend to the publick good; because the sufferings of innocent persons may sometimes tend to the publick good; and in such cases, 'tis just to subject them to such sufferings: and yet here there is no ill-desert.“ All men grant that under ill-desert one other notion is involved than the tendency of sufferings to the publick good,viz. the notion of some moral evil preceed-

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* In einem vortrefli chen Buche, in Bischof ButlersAnalogie, ist ein Fehler begangen worden. „Eine verdiente Strafe mus einen andern Begrif haben, als daß die damit verknüpften Leiden auf das allgemeine Beste ge richtet sind; weil auch die Leiden unschuldiger Perso nen zuweilen auf das all