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

To further attention by presenting to conception imagination through the
medium of the imagination an object at all times present, a
an essentially invisible being is spoken of as the a person from whose will this inexhaustible
stream of misery is at all times to flow. This being
is essentially to all persons during the present life declaredly an invisible
one. But the aspirant despot by whom he is is a visible one: and between the invisible
and the visible the alliance is declared to be and that
to harm, in relation to every portion of the field of human conduct
what is the will of the invisible being a man nothing
he who could be saved from ultraconceivable and endless torment
ready at any moment to commence has nothing to do but
to know and to conform to the will of his visible partner and
favorite.

The misery misery torment experienced by one who has been
undergoing put to death by a course of flogging in the stile
of English military discipline is a torment that has been of which experience
has been had by some, and of which some conception,
how faint and inadequate soever may be formed and entertained
by anyone. If at comparatively small cost a person would wish to
add to the correctness of this conception by experience, let him for
a moment dip a finger into boiling water, and the next moment
plunge it into a large mass cold and there kept keep it till
the pain has ceased as at the end of no great length of time
it will do. Let him then suppose frame to himself the conception supposition
that if in the event of th his failing in any particular to conform
to the will declared or undeclared of the invisible sovereign the
a sensation exactly the same as that which he has been experiencing
will be a sensation he will be in the unremitting experience of during
for a greater length of time as great as that of an average life
multiplied by a sum
expressed in a
of figures as a
man could give expression
to if occupied during the whole
of his life in giving it, and that when this sense of yours, so filled with torment was at end came to an end it would only be to give beginning to another sort, and so on.


Identifier: | JB/039/191/001
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Date_1

1826-07-04

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

039

Main Headings

constitutional code

Folio number

191

Info in main headings field

constitutional code

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

j whatman turkey mill 1824

Marginals

Paper Producer

jonathan blenman

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1824

Notes public

ID Number

12198

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