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Visionary

If ever there was a system of policy deserved the name of
visionary it is that of sleeping laws. They are calculated <add>adapted</add>
— that they shall owe their existence to their compassion -
not to the present state of things but to a state which by the
supposition that no , They are not so much as a
That it shall not be safe to them either
adapted to a future one: but to a state of things
to avow or defend or to avow their particular
which hereafter may be just possible
opinions, or to lay claim to the common rights of
man
They not only have
no tendency to prevent
mischief but they
do whatever it is possible
to be done towards
producing it

In Ireland fourscore forty suffer nothing from
Forty men securing the peace against one - a
fourscores as England forty have every thing to fear
soldier against one infant in the cradle.
from one: ever could they be safe without such laws
further defence but for the protecting power of such laws.
This is their way of doing to others as they would
have others do to them!
He who stands forth in defence of a dormant penal
law has a part to act which is not a little singular

Between the tyranny of sleeping laws and the tyranny
of absolute lawless monarchy without law there is this difference. The latter This tyranny
of lawless monarchy is the tyranny of one: the
other tyranny of sleeping laws is the tyranny of millions
In the one case a man has but one master. In the
other he has many masters as he has fellow-
as there are individuals in the domineering party
They speak up for
laws against thieves
and smugglers: they
speak up for the same
laws or worse against
the peaceable members worshippers of
God according to conscience of a particular
opinion: in the first
instance you are
to believe they mean
what they say: in
the other they deceive
themselves to not to
what they say be , and
insist upon your believing
them profess
conversely and must
upon being believed.

He sets a price upon
your head
In the act of stabbing
you if he says
he means not to hurt
you or he means
it for your good, you
are to believe him
You are to believe To judge of a man Affections, according to him are you are not to look to
not be judged of by from but from to words. You
are not to suppose him It is no of his to have any desire that
mischief may take place, though were his desire longing
ever so intense, he could not neither he nor any
one could take a more effectual course for gratifying
it. He does over again what was done by the first
his predecessors: but what was would be persecution in
is in him moderation and benevolence
Deprived Delivered by the iniquity
and infidelity
of the age from the
more substantial
enjoyment of banqueting
on the blood of their
adversaries, they console
themselves with the idea
of , sad remnant the leavings of the of better times!

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	060	Info in main headings field	visionary
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	2477
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