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1823. April 29
Constitut. Code

The notion that in those the sharers by whom shares are possessed in the powers
of government are possessed there is more virtue than in those non-sharers by
has above been stated as an erroneous one: so far as the position
true that the very reverse is true. So far are they is their place from being
above par the middle line on the scale of virtue, that they are there place is at the very
bottom of it. This is not In this statement there is nothing of
exaggeration: on the contrary it is matter of the strictest demonstration.
The mischief mischievousness of the art whereby human suffering is
produced viz as the magnitude of the suffering, multiplied
by the extent of it – by the numbers of the individuals to
whom it extends. In the case of a man who witnesses it
and is to whom conscious of the part he has in the production of
it, his depravity the moral turpitude that has place in
his mind encreases is in the same ratio as the does the mischievousness
of it as above: of virtue – of depravity – of moral
turpitude there exists not any other intelligible test or measure:
unless it be in regard to the case of the mischievous act
the degree of deliberation attendant in the commission of it.

Comparing with each other by this test and this measure
in a country community governed by corruption and delusion irresistible and punishable the malefactors
who are stiled criminals and treated as such with
the irresistible and unpunishable malefactors by whom stiled rulers by whom they are
treated as such the worst most atrocious of criminals will in every
intelligible sense of the word worst be found to be men of
virtue transcendant virtue in comparison of those in whom
the due to virtue is so unsparingly and almost universally indefatigably
lavished. No sooner are the prejudices with which the field
of government and morals is obscured clouded removed, then the murderer
and the robber and the swindler will understand themselves to be a better
to look down with scorn and horror upon the legislator by whom they have
been directed to their fate respective
fates, and the Judge
by whom it has been
brought down to them.

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Date_1	1823-04-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	262	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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