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INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS
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Hunting and similar pursuits now claim our attention.

These require for their regulation that mixture of law and admonition of which we have often spoken; e.g., in what we were saying about the nurture of young children.

And therefore the whole duty of the citizen will not consist in mere obedience to the laws; he must regard not only the enactments but also the precepts of the legislator.

I will illustrate my meaning by an example.

Of hunting there are many kinds--hunting of fish and fowl, man and beast, enemies and friends; and the legislator can neither omit to speak about these things, nor make penal ordinances about them all.


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