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..& and above all, to guard with the most jealous
circumspection against the introduction of
new and arbitrary methods of trial .... as if
there there ever existed or ever could even
exist a head method taking the single circumstance
of publicity a method of trial so compleatly
arbitrary: as if the arbitrariness of it
were not its great boast and if the very expence
of the institution: as if all its effects absolute
and relative good and bad absolute and relative
did not depend upon its being so. Be
it always observed that arbitrary means not tyrannical
in effect though certainly it excludes & not
that idea, but in itself irresponsible and uncontrouled. <p>
Identifier: | JB/035/072/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
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text sheet |
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jeremy bentham |
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