JB/010/037/002

Click Here To Edit

6

will say is scarce worth punishing
as a crime especially as by the infamy
in which it will involve the offender
the crime will have made for him
itself its own punishment. But to infamy
in this shape the offendor may
be altogether insensible: and in this case
may be found low people in great numbers
id est the majority of mankind.
But an injury which suppose it committed
but once would be scarce worth
mentioning may by repetition become
intolerable: by repetition, suppose in
the first place by one and the same
offendor and no more: but suppose
a conspiracy the instances of repetition
may be multiplied by the number
of the conspirators. Leave an injury
of this sort unpunished you see
what a sure recipie is afforded to
a knot of malevolent persons or even
to a single person giving him a sufficient
degree of audacity and to his
intended victim a corresponding degree
of weakness to drive him from

---page break---

the spot or if he has no means of
quitting it to render his life a burden
to him. So

So in the case of a religionist think
of the reaction that might be inflicted upon
him by an adversary or set of adversaries
assailing him purposely with a discourse
which to his ears would be impious
and blasphemous N.B. — Blasphemous
publications belong not to this case: for
no man can without violence be compelled
to read though any man may
be compelled to hear what according to
his creed is blasphemy.

Any one that you have to
debate with on this subject, beg of
him to think what source o sort of
discourse it will be most painful
for him to hear and what sort of objects
capable of being exhibited to him without
crime in any other shape it wd
be most painful for him to see: desire
him to consider that with such discourse
and such objects he might be
plied either by a single tormentor,

Identifier: | JB/010/037/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	037	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1815
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1815
Notes public	draft of letter 2425, vol. 9	ID Number	3473
Box Contents