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1830 Decr 22
J.B. to France on Majority

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Assuming that this same exclusionary arrangement
is an common one, let us consider what the event
can have had for its source or sources. Whence
then comes it? Not from reasoning. Not from experience.
From what then? From superficial view, from authority
begotten prejudices, from custom-begotten prejudices, from
particular and some who particular and sinister interest, from -begotten
prejudice.

1 The superficial view you have had before you
already – the vague and unexamined notice of the connection between wisdom
and age.

2 Next comes the authority begotten prejduce
followed of followed by the custom begotten prejudice: the
prejudice chewed from the practice of the Romans of note the earliest
judicial equity found in most of the countries which from a state of barbarism had the good fortune to be by their dominion brought into a state of
comparative civilization, continued, as was natural, from thence down to the
present time: the Romans – that people, with whose undigested shapeless,
uncompleat, inadequate, inapposite, ill suited
substitute to positive and intelligible law the nations
of modern times and even after all that has been done,
even you continue in so large a particular proportion
encumbered.⊞ ⊞ With them as with
you a man was not
admitted to the independent
conduct of his own
person or his own property
earlier than at the age of five and twenty
years. But what is that
to the purpose? Next to
nothing. By any application
made of it to the
present purpose, nothing, nor assumed:
1. that the retardation
thus made by the appointment
if so less in age was
founded on reason; 2
that the reasons which
had pace in those times
have such place and apply
with adequate
force in these our
times. But you
have seen that so far at
least as regards the public trust
in question the retardation
thence that was not founded in reason
and even if it was Were it with were it without, that
in those days antient places adequate reason for the retardation
in question had place, still would it not follow
that so it has is in these modern times. In those days
at the that same age early age in question, men in a situation to become
candidates for such a trust had no such intellectual
instruction intellectual and moral, in the rigour of art and science afforded
to men in modern times.

This arrangement was coupled with another which
cash discredit on it. At that same age of 25, notwithstanding
the capacity given him of managing his own pecuniary
concerns, a man was stood subjected to the absolute dominion
of his father, liable to be put to death by him
at any time. What do I say? liable at that age? Yes
and even to the end of life.

In a word the example thus exhibited in those antient
times is not apposite: the example you have been seeing exhibited
by these modern times, is apposite.

Identifier: | JB/023/095/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 23.
Date_1	1830-12-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	023	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	095	Info in main headings field	jb to france on majority
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e9 / f9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	street & co 1830
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	7966
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