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20 Aug. 1803
Evidence

Upon the acquaintance knowledge which the subject possesses of the
law depends his fate in every point of view respect: the faculty of
reaping in the rig exercising the rights – of off enjoying the advantages held out
to him by it her: of rendering the obediences required by law
of avoiding the punishments and other sufferings hardships she has he is threatened
which in case of disobedience or ignorance she has
in store for him.

Setting aside Baling here and there a scrap a chance he possesses no
such knowledge: it is not in his power to possess it:
the faculty of retaining it has not been put into his
hands.

Legislators know this: for all lawyers know this: and
in actu how howsoever whatsoever may be the case in potentia – in
this department of legislation there are no legislators but lawyers.

The possibility of being acquainted knowing with the laws in
which his fate depends is not possessed by the subject who
is continually vexed and tormented for not knowing being acquainted with them.
This ignorance, on his part an insensible one is among
the matters objects of fact the most familiar to lawyers every lawyer legal eye. The
effects and tracks of it were every instant before their eyes.
With their lips at at least with their faces they are as continually proclaiming the non-existence
of it: in all cases relative to wills all the arguments they use are constantly built upon
that ground. They know the subject is ignorant: they know
he is invincibly ignorant: they assert that he is not ignorant,
they declare that he is being ignorant ignorance is an excuse to him: they punish
him for his ignorance for what he is doing every day
and what he could not never would do were it for his ignorance: they
it depends upon them to remove do away his ignorance: they do nothing
to remove it: they have never suffered they never will suffer any
thing to be done that can contribute in the smallest degree to the removal of it.

Universal, excessive,
invincible, blameless
deplorable is mens ignorance
of the law.⊞ To whom but to that
class of men who derive
their name from it who
are indebted to it for their
profession and their income. Lawyers.

They behold men
plunged in it ignorance:
they behold in themselves
the authors of it:
they keep men plunged
in it:
they feel it in themselves
the power to remove it:
they deny the existeance
of it:
they it; they
encrease it.
they In all manner of
says they make their
profit of it
in all without mercy they punish
men for it: they declare
it to be no excuse:
they in all manner
of ways they vex men
for it. They entail it
upon it upon mankind.
The law that abhorrs s its professors, abhorss perpetuators? Yes, but what perpetuators? As much as it abhorrs perpetuity of property, as much more and much more commonly does it
abhorr the thoughts of abridging or narrowing perpetuity of ignorance.

† Matthew 23.3.
their fellow subjects: and
of this one entail they have
decreed that it shall never
be put off.
Like the Pharisees of the
Gospel† "they bind heavy
"burthens, and grievous to be
"borne, and lay them on
"men's shoulders; but they
"themselves will not move
"them with one of their
"fingers."

Identifier: | JB/047/050/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1803-08-20	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	050	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	14918
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