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1820 Sept 18

In answer to Mora

of code for caller for legislate
but in even one Code in : the . to to into
& be partial many appreciable problems

"De l'oportunité et de la necessité d'introduire en Espagne
"sous le rapport d'une nation vierge d'institutions/des codes fondées sur
"les principes eternels de la raison et de la justice sans avoir nul
"egard à la legislation des peuples anciens ni aux codes adoptés chez
les principales nations d'Europe."

What a task is this
you have set me at. First
to the necessity. A body
of laws that shall be
unlike every other one
that is or ever was in
excituus, then you say
is what it would for spare. Nothing
can be more
at least appears to be
, and such I am
sure is mine. Good.
But what you call
upon me for is a proof
of it. Well: if
a proof "a priori, will
satisfy you, here is
me already at your
service

1. As to the necessity —on this head I could never find more
than two things to say. One would not fill half quarter of a page: a moderate
sized library would be filled before the other could be said. The quarter
of a page is this to the legislations in question to accomplish of ment of the object in question
two conditions are necessary. Inclination and capacity. In no instance
have either been present: still less both united consequently not. 1 Not inclination:
the object is the greatest happiness of the greatest number: this is
the mark: be the mark what it may, be the number of shooters
what it may, how is it possible it should have been hit by any
one of them, while with their of all of them eyes, livened so many different ways
they have all of them livened their backs have been all turned to on it. This applies to both
times, ancient and modern old and new: capacity— comparative capacity, applies
to the times called old tim times of old. Times of old Old times forsooth! Alas!— how absurdly and how unfortunately!
times of Young times young they ought to be called, if man is younger
in his birthday
than on hia wedding
than on his wedding
day;
the child as the breast is younger than the mother that suckles him, if on the case of a
child in the young rather than old would be the proper
epithet for distinguishing him from the nurse who was rocking it.
Who is The mother of wisdom, who is she?—?Experience (say our children) while
they are writing lessons for their copy-books. No, but Inexperience
say our wise men— men who are wise by patent, as our Kings
are most Excellent by Act of Parliament. Wise as we are, I should have said that is to say they, our ancestors
our ancestors— I should have said there —ancestors were still wiser; theirs, than they; and so on til we we get back
to the Druids who learnt wisdom by burning children alive in wicker

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Date_1	1820-09-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	016	Info in main headings field	in answer to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham; richard doane	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[fleur de lys] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public	see note to letter 2689, vol. 10	ID Number	4465
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