JB/036/044/001

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1821. May 4. First Lines

Apply to oral discourse the principle of the Book Censorship. Over every
company or individual, set a keeper to stop his mouth, &.

The delusion practised may be distinguished into positive and
negative: positive, operating by the holding up of false lights; negative by
the exclusion of true lights. Of the several false lights and of the several
instruments by which they are capable of being diffused and diffused
accordingly, and made productive of those errors in judgment and
practice for the production of which they were devized, a view will
be given further on.† For the exclusion of true lights, the measures
capable of being taken and taken accordingly may be distinguished
into collectively-operating, and individually-operating.

Those which operate collectively, have for their subject matter
the matter of discourse in its permanent and visible and permanent
form, consisting of the productions of the press. Of the presses,
from which they respectively issue, the situation is either within
or without the dominions of the Government in question. In so far
as it is in the former case, the institution by which the end is aimed
at is termed the censorship. In this case, a general interdict is established
by which the publication of all literary works in general
stands prohibited. But, at the same time, a system of licensing is
established, in virtue of which at the will of certain persons termed
the Censors, an exemption in favour of such works as it shall please
them so to favour may be granted.

Identifier: | JB/036/044/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-05-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 4 - or 7
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	044	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10968
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