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1828. Jany. 16
Law AmendmentsPropositions

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Whether ridicule be a test of truth has been matter
of dispute. That courage made manifest manifested as evinced by joining engaging in single
combat and coming up victor is a test of truth was under in
that system occasion, out of dispute: courage at least as when manifested
by engaging in single combat and coming off victor.
So under according to the wisdom of our wise ancestors. So
also according to the wisdom of their wise successors: in so much
that for the converting truth into falshood into truth is no more
than what a pistol shot the report of a pistol can be made to do at any
time. L. a liar lie a flat gross lie: A. an accuser gives him to
understand that this same lie is what it is. L. challenges invites
him to f come and be killed: if he declines the invitation,
the lie is no lie, the false assertion is made true.

If by the readiness consent to kill or be killed as it may happen
virtue in any shape were evidenced it would be in the shape
of courage. But courage is not more strongly strangely
indeed blinded and perverted by prejudice must be
the mind of that man in whose eyes courage is a proof
of veracity, or of virtue in any shape but itself. Not that
courage is itself a virtue any more than it is a vice: a
virtue is a name title to which no faculty quality is entitled
to be decorated with that the exercise of which is not directed
to a good end: directed to a good end courage then is indeed
a virtue: directed to a bad end it is a vice. Take in hand
one of those moulds in which the human character is are cast by
human imagination, pour into it a mass composed of the most
transcendently odious and justly odious speculation of which the human species character is
susceptible – even in its
plenitude of perfection
still will there be
as much room for escape
as if there it were compleat
as if there were nothing else
in it: and the higher the
perfection in which this
quality has place, the greater
the quantity of the evil done which the man will be able and disposed to do, by means of this one.

Identifier: | JB/016/152/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 16.
Date_1	1828-01-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	6
Box	016	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	152	Info in main headings field	law amendment
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / c2 / c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5959
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