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28 May 1808

2. Of the intellectual mischief part of mischief – so its
close and inseparably is its connection with the moral – an idea
the description delineation has in great part been performed already under
the preceding head: but hitherto it has been considered
as otherwise than its application to the minds of
such individuals whose lot it is to find themselves
doomed stationed in that so burthensome an office.

But the far from being confined to that
inferior station, the intellectual part of the mischief
thus spread itself to planted itself in and gained taken possession of the highest
seated minds: of those in whom the lot condition and configuration of the rest
all inferior ones depends.

Hence it is that lying, expunged, as often as
occasion serves out often the catalogue of vices, has
under the name of fiction, been raised to the rank
of science, and treated regarded with the honour respect due to an
instrument in its nature subservient originally assistant and now become
necessary to justice.

Men have thus learned accustomed themselves to believe, and to believe
without an effort Of lying that it is not in private
life a vitious and pernicious practice, that it is not
when practised on a judicial occasion it is inflicted with that sinister in
an highly aggravated degree are propositions the truth
of which when thus delivered in the form of general propositions
and without any particular application will scarce
find any man to question it.

Identifier: | JB/035/180/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1808-05-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	180	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d13 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	10773
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