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1826 July 4
Constitutional Code.Ch. IX. Ministers collectively

When A mode and that to a vast extent a time now
being thus found invented whereby evidence to an unlimited extent
may be secured to an opinions a set of propositions however absurd and palpably
untrue, advantage is in here then is an instrument
by in the apt dexterous application of which every person
whose position affords a prospect of establishing a despotic
influence power over the other members of the community of which
he forms a part beholds an obvious and promising means of
realising it. He sets imagination to work to produce in mens
minds apprehension of danger evil to the greatest possible amount
from a distant and because imaginary sources, he holds out
at the same time means of obtaining through never a certainty
yet at any rate a chance of escaping from that same
evil: those means of escape cannot in conformity to the
will – either inwardly under the name of the will, or unavowedly
under the name of the opinion of this aspirant or those with
whom he is in alliance.

The present life not affording any object applicable
to the purpose, a future life is of necessity the scenes of the evil
to which in case of non-compliance with his will all persons
are to be subjected. But the greater the value – the greater in intensity
and duration (certainty being assumed and propinquity such
as a moment may at any time suffers to change into promise)
in a word the greater the value in all the elements of value
taken together – the greater and more absolute the power he thus
obtains for himself.

Identifier: | JB/039/190/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1	1826-07-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	190	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	12197
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