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1820 Apr. 10
J.B. to Carlisle 2
have been so heavily punished, I mean those of Thomas
Payne Paine received from first to last the finest circulation.

My opinion on the subject of religion are such as I am
neither ashamed to avow nor own in my own conception
small to defend: at the same time it is a fixt
rule to me neither never to manifest declare them spontaneously in
any address to the public, nor in private to comply
any call made upon me directly or indirectly for that
purpose. To manifest them in public would be to produce give
meanness in the minds of every reader with whose opinions
they disagreed, and in so far as those opinions are being unknown person by the
name by which they were produced that uneasiness could not
be attended with every advantage. To avow them in consequence
of any private call made upon me in private
would be, by submission to give encouragement to a sort
of which list too often, and never without
indignation it has happened to me to be exercised. That
this would on every occasion be my reason and
my sole reason for such silence — this at any rate that
free of that which in any such account could do to me or not if the
minder of my reason is sufficiently known to
every man who has others seen as head of thank of
Englandson examined. But for one person whose accident
has placed in this very situation there are multitude
whose situation is unhappily altogether opposite.

In the hands of any one man who concerns himself
to have another man in any degree in his power a declaration
of opinion whether on the subject of religion or on the subject of
justices is a means or instrument which if being employed for it cursing of interesting that power: and this it
it has often happened
to me to know, or
but are apt to be most
cruelly and ungenerously
abused.

Identifier: | JB/010/015/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1	1820-04-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	015	Info in main headings field	jb to carlile
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [fleur-de-lys] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public	letter 2602, vol. 9	ID Number	3451
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