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Laws stuck up in , sleeping dormant laws are
at in every department and in every country
the common shelter and last shift of tyranny. In This asylum
it has had the cunning to procure itself by
a sort of capitulation with good government and
good sense. The Humanity of the people would not endure the existence
of such laws if they were put to any use followed by the effect
they aim at. Incautiousness and facility will suffer
them so long as they have no visible effect, so long as they
But if they produced
no real
they would not be
so dear to their upholders
exhibit no sensible
image of intolerable
oppression

In what Whoever ascribes every thing that is
amiss in government to tyrrany knavery, and nothing to
folly, does a great deal more than justice to the
head and a great deal less than justice to the heart
of man. In what exact proportions these two principles
causes may have contributed to the production of
the joint effect is a metaphysical problem
incapable of of which the solution is neither practicable,
nor were it practicable, of use. Human
May they and they
only be subject to
May
be reserved for those
and those alone who according
to whom say it is no punishment!
grievance!
who maintain it to
be no grievance!
nature is a in which and deceit are
found naturally combined in all imaginable proportions:
By what chemistry can the mass be decomposed, and Where is the chemistry that can pretend
the weight of each ingredient ascertained and each
ingredient be exhibited separate and pure? The
one generates the other: for the greatest of decisions
find their account in putting the upon being dupes. The better they
themselves succeed in putting the upon themselves
the easier they find it to pass it off
upon other people.

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There is not in all government a more poisonous pestilential
principle than this idea of keeping laws on foot
with the professed intention of their not being executed or the practice of their not being intended.
Infinite mischief has always at all times flowed sprung from it: at
no time the least particle of good. Malignity, with
or without the mask of cowardice has always been
the motive: tyranny has as constantly been as
constantly the object and the result.

In the present British government of the present
day different branches have different actual objects: the
fiscal part branch, the arbitrary vesting of arbitrary power through by
the instrumentality of corruption in the hands of
the crown, and the sharing parcelling-out <add>securing to</add> among the aristocracy
on purchase of rewards for service as much as the
patience of the people would will suffer to be shared of the plunder of the spoils of the people:
I have spoken elsewhere
of the difference
between the fit and
the actual objects
and ends of government:
the distinction,
more pregnant
with useful but
melancholy truths.
the religious or more properly the ant-religious the religious as it is stiled or as with much more propriety
it might be stiled the anti-religious branch, the gratifying
the malignant passions of those who ought
to be the Ecclesiastical servants mere servants of the people in this department, and by the folly of
the people who are suffered to be the their Ecclesiastical masters
of the people state and making them bad Christians and
bad men. Deprived Robbed of the enjoyments luxury of open
persecution violence they cling comfort themselves on the enjoyment to this silent and more treacherous
mode of persecution as their last resource. Deprived
The law is to be
struck with importance
sooner than not be
made a pander to
their vices

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	061	Info in main headings field	church
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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	2478
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