ABSTRACT
Another way of preventing crimes is that of rewarding virtue. A universal silence of laws of all nations of the day has met this proposal. If the prizes awarded by academies to the discoverers of useful truths have increased our knowledge and good books, why should not prizes distributed by the good hand of the sovereign multiply other virtuous actions? 2 The currency of honor is always inexhaustible and fruitful in the hands of a wise distributor.116
