25 March 1804

Evidence

Forthcomingness

Ch 1 Generalia

§.3. Means 1 Powers

person in the character of a witness.

1. division 1. for psychological means 2. physical means

To psychological means are no other than motives: the part of the mind in question in the will: motives are the only agents /levers/ to the action of which the will of man is exposed. by which the will of man can be moved.

Means of the psychological order will require to be considered under the three following primary delineations, viz:

1. Simple invitations.

2. Remuneratory applications.

3. Compulsory applications.

1. Simple invitations, in the making /authorizing/ of which the government legislator trusts exclusively to such motives as the nature of man and things /the case/ applies to the will of the person addressed - not adding to that natural force any factitious /artificial/ force of his own creation. Instance the invitations afforded by simple advertisements inserted in the public press[?] or otherwise dispersed by individuals, or even by government.

2. Remuneratory applications - Offer of the matter of reward, most commonly in a pecuniary shape, either by government at the expense of the public, or by individuals, at their own expense, with the allowance of government

3. Compulsory applications. Denuntiation of punishment, in case of non-compliance. Punishment /legal punishment administrable /applicable/ to individuals without distinction/ being exclusively the art of government, and of government alone, applications of this kind can not come /of course originate/ in any other quarter /source/ than government: of government acting on this occasion, in the department of judicature. Monitoieres of which in their place - Monitoiere, or species of advertisement, in use in Catholic Countries may be considered as of a [...?] or middle nature, belonging in certain points of view to the head of simple invitations, in others to that of compulsory applications.