What does unpracticable mean?
Unpracticable means Not practicable..
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Not practicable..
But so unpracticable is this design, that although sometimes conceived, it is never executed; the civil magistrate knows that it would be utterly destructive of human society; sublime as may be the ideal justice that it supposes, he sets it aside on the calculation of its bad consequences.
It has been urged, "You are unpracticable; you want a world of tramps--how are you going to live?"
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Unpracticable means Not practicable..
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But so unpracticable is this design, that although sometimes conceived, it is never executed; the civil magistrate knows that it would be utterly destructive of human society; sublime as may be the ideal justice that it supposes, he sets it aside on the calculation of its bad consequences.
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