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16 Feby 1813

Of this self-deceiving and self-corrupting exercise
the practice carries not with it any pleasant
whatsoever inward it is attended with accompanied with can can not scarcely
fail of being but be in a greater or less degree of an unpleasant nature.
Fo As such, by many a mind it not to say by most minds
it will be from - it will be escaped from. But
when the escape from it is made, what is that is done.
Then in the flight from force mental force, as in the pursuit
of pernicious and too dear-bought pleasure, a man will
abstract his whole mind from whatsoever there is in the
subject and its consequences that is unpleasant to him:
in a word he will so order his mind as to think nothing about the
matter. He will say to himself - this is no mere
there a matter of form: with himself just as much.
or send not more than is necessary to the framing tranquilizing of that opinion.
He will say to himself - this is but matter of form: and
so saying whatever it is to be agreed, he will
so far that short thought excepted, sign itself it without
thought: whatsoever be it be that is to be said, he will
say it he will continue to say it without thought.

This mischief
perhaps reducible
the 3d (or 1st viz.
abstracting the
from consideration
of the subject
Thus [suppose it] instead of a false or thoughtless declaration
of persuasion, suppose it a murder, whether in the retail way
or in the wholesale, such as a war of rapacity or insolence that
were to be committed. To the world at large the life of this individual
what is it worth? to myself it is a minimum - away with it. Or then
to the world at large, those hundreds of thousands or those millions - a
hundred years hence what will it signify whether they were put out of the way all together, or left
to die natural deaths.
In the case as easily and effectually may criminality or communality be used to change its nature, by so simple an expedient as the act about it.

In its nature and description the mischief in this case may
be reducible reduced perhaps to that which has been brought to view in the
first third case. The Obstructing his mind from the whole of the
subject together - shutting the door of his mind against the whole
of the subject together, he shuts out of course all as part and parcel of that subject whatsoever
considerations would if admitted operate in disfavour of the persuasion which
which by his signature
or his utterance he professes
and appears to have
embraced.

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Date_1	1813-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	255	Info in main headings field	church
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	2672
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