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16 Feby 1813 Church II

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By sinister interest
is the kind employed
in this process.
The habit once
acquired, the same
effects will constantly
be produced.
Any mischievous
practice will thus
at the suggestion
of sinister interest
be pronounced right.

It is always by interest - by sinister interest, that
the active power of the mind is employed put by the will in upon
this distorting and debilitating exercise. But, the habit
once acquired, and by each successive operation confirmed strengthened
by the same cause out by of the same root the same effects will be continually
springing up produced. Be it ever so wrong mischievous to society
be it ever so wrong, sinister at the suggestion of sinister
interest the self-deceptive power will be set to work, and
the mischievous practice will be pronounced by it to be
right.

Thus habituated
a man becomes a
fit instrument to
be employed by
power to perpetrate
any impunity
promising crime
If he be sincere in
support of error, so
much the better,
as he is thus exempt
from conscious
criminality.

Thus habituated and self-trained a man has rendered himself
an instrument fit to be employed in the hand of
power in the production of any mischief - in the perpetration of any impunity - promising
crime. By the degree of success which has attended his
practice in this act - by the degree of sincerity which he
has succeeded in keeping up maintaining in his own mind, during
and notwithstanding the support given to error and the
assistance given to mischief he has rendered himself
not the less fit efficient but the more efficient in his
character of an instrument of mischief. He lends himself employs himself
to the production of the mischief, with a composed and unruffled
mind, exempt from that disturbance of to which a
mind self conscious of criminality immorality is in the joint ratio
of the degree of criminality immorality and that the degree of its own sensibility
exposed.
Sinister interest has
ie Interest in his mind
fortified strengthened itself with
the assistance of its
offspring — interest -
begotten prejudice.

4. Mischief. 4. Contribution
to mischief
in all shapes

4. Mischief the fourth - Contribution made to the production
of mischief in all its shapes

5. Mischief the fifth - Contribution made to the propagation
and perpetuation uneradication of error - mischievous error in all its shapes. [+]
[+] 6.. Mischief the 6th. sixth
Support and assistance
provided for misrule
and tyranny in all
its shapes
7. Mischief the seventh.
Obstruction
provided for reform in all its shapes and improvement in all its shapes.




Identifier: | JB/005/254/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 5.

Date_1

1813-02-16

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

005

Main Headings

church of englandism

Folio number

254

Info in main headings field

church

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e5

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

<…> co

Marginals

Paper Producer

a. levy

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

2671

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