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1829 June 16
J.B. on Peel or Review of J.B. and H.B.

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Anti-reforming Guilt

Positive acts of malfeasance
shewn through the
negative veil therein over them

1. Effects . 2. So acts of opposition
in so far as reform or improvements
here the proposals
Your reputation stands upon
precision

Note on Morn. Chron.
15 June 1829 Peel's
induces procurement of the Attendees
those duped of &c

Of the frame and state of this mans mind
in respect of morality & very incorrect and inadequate
would a mans conception be, if the veil cast over it
by the negative form given to the description of it remains
unreserved. unseen through Promise of reform and improvement
which is then but preservation of all in that treason of misdeed. of what
reform could be the of with the attendant suffering the termination of which could
not by any other means other than the establishment of reform
be effected. If the number of those sorts sufferings suppose
death to be one: and in this shape from these cases. suffering
in instances but be abundant: are beyond all doubt in
every year continually produced. The act by which
death is produced is termed homicide: and when
without special lawful and justifiable cause and after
and with deliberation an act of homicide is performed committed
murder the denomination given by every body without scruple
or to that act. But by a mere purely negative act,
homicide, murder, and punished,
measured as such and punished as such may as effectually
be committed, as by a positive one. A woman engaged
as a wet nurse, wilfully forbears giving suck to a
newborn infant, whereupon it dies: not of forbearance — the negative act this is murder in the reason.
A prisoner being in close confinement without food
otherwise than through the hands of the Prison keeper, the Prison
keeper forbears for and during such a length of time
forbears administering first to the prisoner, that for want of it
he does. This act of mere forberance negative as it is is not
the less unusual nor the less criminal: this also is
an act of murder. As to morality more immoral is it by
far more immoral — there would be any pardon act by
nether which that same catastrophe had been produced: an
act of hanging: for example more immoral? Answer. Because
the
the quality of fear of
suffering to the by the
agent produced
by the act is so made
by rules: both in intents
and in character so much
greater

Go on apply this to the
case of the bad state of prison discipline, the correction of which is prevented by Peel.

Identifier: | JB/011/100/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1829-06-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field	jb on peel or review of jb and hb
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	3797
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