JB/036/134/002

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1821 March 12

Of the method in which the author of the whole work is disposed
the designate the to avoid a main object is – the avoiding all along as much as possible the giving to give to
existing prepossession that repulsive shock, of which a blind and immediate, compleat and
indiscriminate rejection
is so apt to be the consequence.

In so far as a course chain of logical demonstration which has
for its object nothing but human comfort, though acceptance given
to useful truths may, for illustration be compared to a plan of
offensive warfare, the plan this a description is of attack is of this sort as follows. It has for its
object the avoiding to place the adversary in that state
of blind and inflexible obstinacy which is apt to have place be the consequence of his feeling where
he feels himself compleatly surrounded and attacked at once
in all its parts in that sort as to see from the very first
and without hope of quarter that to if he gives up any one of them he has no retreat left.
On the other hand Whereas when it is against no more than one out of a number
of posts that in to his conception the attack is made, his
resistance will naturally lose its pertinacity in proportion
to the strength and number of the parts which for aught
he perceives are still left to him. Still more faint of course
will be his of the post which he attacked in the first instance with which the attack
commence is be no other than one which is contemplated of
its weakness he had felt a disposition to abandon without
waiting to be attacked for the attack on it.

Identifier: | JB/036/134/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-06-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	18-20
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	134	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b5 / d11 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11058
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