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1823 July 22

To any such purpose as causing men to act in opposition
to that which in their own view of the matter at the time
is their interest, all the power of true instruction is altogether inapplicable:
therefore by no instruction so far as regards these or any the corruptionists
here in question or any others other corruptionists, by selling them causing them to see through it be ever so clearly showing them that this is
among the cases in which more evil than good will be done, more
happiness will be defalcated than will be added by the observa fidelity
to engagements, nothing whatever will be done towards causing
them to abstain from pointing any such the endeavour to as that of securing producing enforcing
the punctual ob fidelity to engagements in this instance, by pointing
the punitive force of the Public Opinion Tribunal against all who
find in it.

But though by no such information can any impression
conducive to the salutary purpose be made upon the
minds of the members of this smaller section of the Public Opinion
Tribunal, yet sooner or later by this same information the desirable impression
may be made upon all the several members of the
greatly much larger section – upon the great majority of all the members.
Hitherto As yet the corruption comparatively imperfect incorrect and narrow on the part of
the members of the democratical section has been their conception
and comprehension and conception of their own destructive interest:
correct and ample on the conception entertained by them part of the members
of the aristocratical of their section has been their conception of
their destructive interest. Great and almost nearly irresistible has
been and is but just ceasing to be the influence of the members
of the aristocratical section over those the minds of the members of
the democratical section: the influence – to wit not only
the influence derived from pain – the influence of will on evil:
but the influence derived from knowledge – the influence of understanding
on understanding. On every part of the field of action have
the subject many found themselves, under the necessity of deriving their
conceptions and their judgments from the reports made to them by the
ruling and influential few: and with very few no exceptions on their capable as
yet of exercising operating with any considerable influence have those reports been contained
anything but what was
false and in effect if
not in intention delusive,
having if not for for their object their
effect the causing them
to regard as conducive to
their interests those practices
which were most
adverse to those same interests:
practices having for their effect, the establishment of misrule, and of corruption as an efficient cause of it: misrule with the depredation, oppression and dissipation involved in it, all
exercised at for the particular and sinister benefit of the corruptionists and their partizans and accomplices at the expence and by the sacrifice of the benefit of the many.

Identifier: | JB/037/269/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-07-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	269	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11484
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