JB/036/008/001

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1821. April 26.

3. Where, sympathy at the first commencement of the habit
of witnessing, with or without the habit of producing, sufferance, sympathetic
suffering has been produced by the sight of it, the continuance of
the habit will, sooner or later, extinguish the sympathy. It is thus extinguished,
for example as above mentioned, in the Surgeon, or he would not be fit for the
exercise of his beneficent art. It is thus nearly if not altogether extinguished, supposing it originally
to have had place, in the breast of the military conqueror, or
he would not be fit for the exercise of his maleficent art. The mother,
who has lately lost a son in battle, has some conception of what the
miseries of war are, and feels and grieves accordingly for those who
are partakers of them. Under a monarchy, absolute or limited, among
the functionaries in the higher ranks, commencing with the Monarch,
so confirmed is the habit of hearing of men by thousands, and tens
of thousands slaughtered or reduced from happiness to misery by
the operations, by the orders given by these their rulers for the purpose
of giving further and further extension to their own power, factitious
dignity, and opulence no more greater portion of sympathetic suffering
is produced in such breasts by the tidings of any such catastrophe
than has place in the breast of a gardener while he is setting his foot
on a swarm of caterpillars. The same Monarch in whose breast the
sight of a favourite, suffering from a hurt experienced in the course
of a floric frolic, had in early youth produced an almost equal pain of
sympathy will, as ambition encreases and sympathetic sensibility
decreases, receive with indifference the news of a limb lost by that
same favourite in company with thousands of limbs and as many
lives lost by others in the course of a battle from which the power of
the wholesale manufacturer of it human misery is thought to receive regarded as receiving
encrease.

As it is with the universal superior, so is it with the subordinates:
quantities and degrees being proportioned to the place occupied
by them respectively in the gorgeous scale.

Identifier: | JB/036/008/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	11
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	008	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5 / e4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10932
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